Quotes About Integrity

I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure.

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean.

I'm not going to pretend that I am the best thing in their life and they have to be totally loyal.

You can beat me up, but don't touch my hair, I will kill you!

I'm not some little soft touch. I will never take a backward step when batting, but I want to be respected as a nice guy, too.

I'm here to make good pictures. If I don't see it, I won't touch it. I may not make a good picture, but I still gotta believe in it!

If I told a lie, then I got to come back and correct it years later. I hate that I have to be the person that touch on their life and be personal and be direct with certain situations, but man, I'm glad that it's me than them.

I don't do 'political correctness,' whatever that means. I write the stories I want to write, featuring the characters I want to feature. I don't touch demographic bases to appease this group or that. I write what I want. Full stop.

If you don't love it, don't touch it.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.

I'm just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I'm honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day, don't care what people say. I never cared about what people say.

Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about them.

If I read a part and think I can connect to it, that I can touch people with it, I will do it, no matter what its size. And if I think I can't do something with a part, I won't take it.

You have those songs that are very special to you that you don't want to get ruined by production. Something like 'Start Again' shouldn't be touched. It's a classic-sounding song on a piano and violins and harmonies, and I think those songs are perfect as they are.

I'm straight edge. I've never touched a drug, and I want to show kids that you can accomplish big things the right way.

Experience has taught me that privacy truly is the touchstone of our criminal justice system.

Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.

I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Paolo Maldini. He was tough, tough, every time we played against each other. And I played against him many times. He's a very good friend.

Who would I be to be cowering to a bunch of gutless cowards acting like a bunch of tough guys online?

It's easy to be good when things are great; it's tough to be good when they're not.