Quotes About Integrity

I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.

I've never had surgery. I don't drink. I don't go out. My shoulders, back, legs, hip, they're all fine. I think I bring a lot to a team.

I don't want to surpass anyone. I don't want to be better than anyone else.

Honestly achieved results surpass all others.

People always say, 'Do you get bothered by what people say or blog or write about you?' I only do if I know them. If I know them, and I have a relationship with them and they write that, then that would surprise me a lot. Usually the people writing the negative stuff don't know me at all.

I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.

I'm surprised at people who have a passion for Mitt Romney, because he's taken every position there is. I would cast this guy as the president in a heartbeat... but I just cannot believe a word he says.

Our supermarkets sell us horsemeat as beef, our politicians fiddle their expenses, and our bankers risk money that isn't theirs. So it's not surprising the public don't trust anyone or anything.

Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

We are not going to surrender nor dishonor ourselves nor get on our knees whatever price we have to pay.

What does it mean to be a superhero? We're all fighting for the better good. But, at the same time, I think what stands out is, as superheroes, you don't give up; you don't surrender. I think that's what makes a superhero.

I've never been a surrogate for Bernie, Hillary, or the DNC.

You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, especially if they're family.

I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.

If a man can be corrupted by a few books, I doubt if there was anything there to begin with.

It was [John Gardner's] conviction that if the words in the story were blurred because of the author's insensitivity, carelessness, or sentimentality, then the story suffered from a tremendous handicap. But there was something even worse and something that must be avoided at all costs: if the words and the sentiments were dishonest, the author was faking it, writing about things he didn't care about or believe in, then nobody could ever care anything about it.

I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it.

If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

There are places where cops are not hated, Captain. But in those places you wouldn't be a cop.

I'm a copper," he said. "Just a plain ordinary copper. Reasonably honest. As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

I was doing a cheap sneaky job for people I didn't like, but that's what you hire out for, chum. They pay the bills, you dig the dirt.