Quotes About Integrity

Everybody is watching you every minute anyways. If they think the message you're sending out is phony, they're going to say, 'Who does he think he is?' It's again good business. But it is also an obligation.

I'm a lot of things but not a liar or a phony, even when I know it's in my best interest to be.

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

I cannot be phony.

The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.

I don't think there is a single character in 'The Graduate' that is not a phony, to one degree or another, except Benjamin and Elaine, and only in the scenes when they are alone together.

You don't want to come in and be phony and be someone you're not.

I need a little more 'Jersey Shore' in me, I guess. It's just not who I am. It would almost be phony at this point.

People can see through a phony.

I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.

I don't like living around too many fancy-pantsy folks. That ain't my thing. I'm not into phony people.

I don't want to be one of those kids who gets famous and then changes and becomes cocky. That's why it's so important to me to try and take a photo with every girl who comes to see me.

In the beginning, the clients would say, 'This is too much,' but over time, the ones I liked kept working with me. They'd say, 'It's not too much. Coco can still be Coco. She still gives 100 percent when she's on a photo shoot.'

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

People often say, 'You don't go to fashion shows? What kind of photographer are you? What the hell is the wrong with you, man?' But that's what I need in order to be who I am.

I have always said that it is completely about the music, and I have never been interested in anything else. I think I've been able to maintain that. I'm a totally normal person, I don't get followed or have photographers waiting outside my door. So yes I have a very ordinary life.

You couldn't get away with anything at City because there were always photographers everywhere.

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

I happen to take photographs, and they happen to be used for a lot of things, but they're not really made to order. They're paid for, but they're not made for order. I've never really done real commercial work.

I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.

For me, I've got no interest in being a celebrity, and I have no interest in doing photographs, going to this party or that.

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.

I just don't like to do photography for money.

All I've wanted to be is someone people look up to. It's funny - everyone says I'm controversial. I've never worked out what it is about me that's controversial. I've never had a DUI; I've never been in a brawl; you've never seen photos of me walking out of clubs at 5 A.M.