Quotes About Trust

When I hear about a player losing his money, I'll rarely, if ever, point a finger at the player because I know how difficult it is. It's not always, 'Look at this idiot who got paid all these millions of dollars and lost it all.' It may be more like, 'This naive kid with a million things going on in his life put his faith in the wrong people.'

My mom is really naive - she thinks that because she is honest, other people will be honest too. That's not the way it works.

I never had to really worry about anything and I guess I was naive.

For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast.

If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.

If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's what creates excitement.

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

I have a St. Bernard named B.

I must have worked with over 100 actors, but I think there are four to five names I count on my fingers and say they are my friends.

It's good when a manager names his goalkeeper and backs him. That's the sort of thing you want. You want to know you've got that backing and you're not one mistake away from getting dropped.

I think something that really shocked me as a nanny were parents who sort of assumed the worst from the get-go. People who didn't accept the benefit of the doubt.

I think a lot of moms get really scared that if they have a nanny that somehow the child is going to love them less and attach more to the nanny. But, I haven't had that fear.

My nanny took me in at 12 with my brother, who is a year younger than me. We're the closest brothers you'll ever meet.

For my brother and I, Maureen was a key figure in our life. When we were little, we were probably closer to our nanny than to our parents.

You can't nap with just anyone. It's weird. I can honestly say I've only napped with six people.

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you.

From making documentaries all these years, it doesn't feel right to lead someone. In narratives, I'm always trying to shoot as though it's really happening, and I trust my actors are going to make decisions that I'm going to be following. I want to follow them.

I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I've learned if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do.

To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.

The great thing about David Poile and Nashville is they believe in the people that they hire and they stick with the people that they hire.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.

I trust Robert Mueller, I trust our intelligence community and I trust our national security community because I've worked with them my entire adult life.