Quotes About Integrity

I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.'

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical. How do you not compromise when the whole thing is about compromise?

I am no parasite.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

You can't separate the two, being a parent, being a cop.

You can't be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, 'No ice cream,' buys the ice cream, and says, 'Don't tell your mother.' You teach the child to lie - and to disrespect the other parent.

I don't advocate any child following in their parent's footsteps when their parent's footsteps are as crooked as mine are.

You can fudge a lot as an actor, but you can't fudge being a parent.

In many ways, I don't think journalism is any different from banking. And I don't think that banking is any different from parenting.

Don't tell me that Colonel Parker or Brian Epstein didn't tell a little lie from time to time.

Our armed forces, not our parliament of dunces, are our pride. Doubting our armed forces' integrity and honesty is a disgraceful travesty.

It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

You cannot get me to be disloyal to a friend. You just can't do it. Loyalty is a part of what I live by. I didn't say I was going to be loyal to my friend because he was right. I'm going to be loyal to my friend because he's my friend.

You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.

Going back to being a head coach entails a full-time commitment to that job and I would not go into it for any amount of money and do it halfway. It would be a total commitment, not part-time.

I rather win one championship as a key player than four championships as a part-time player.

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.

Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities.

If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.

We don't want our MPs to become greedy like those of other parties.