Quotes About Integrity

People used to come knocking on my door saying, 'Your trouble is that you're a sex symbol who doesn't do enough sexy things.' I'd say to myself, 'You think that if you pressure me I'll fold.' But if I did it, all it would mean is that I sold out.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am.

Just because I get in trouble or into a situation outside of boxing, don't let that make your statement on my boxing.

You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.

If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.

I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them.

You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

I've never been in trouble with the police.

Superstars come and go. I want to make sure I am always a producer's actor. I may be refused to be called a great actor but I have never troubled any of my producers in my life. Honesty always catches the camera, and that is what my strength is.

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

The best shows I've done, the writers, actors, and directors have been pretty much left alone - maybe given a little guidance to make it a little more this or more that. But the heavier the hand on the show, I find, the more troubled the show is.

I try to do my job and be a decent person, and a decent person has the courage to face what is not necessarily pleasant, what is perhaps dark and troublesome.

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

The Fox News that I know and work in is a team of producers, technicians, photographers, truck operators and production managers who barely have time to eat lunch, much less engage in bad behavior.

It's important for me to be respected and to be thought of as authentic and true to myself. So even if country music won't play my music, I'm not gonna go and record a party song or a truck song just to try to get spins. I have to be authentic to myself.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

In tough times, that's when you see true colours and personality.

I'll always keep fighting, keep being myself and be as respectful as I can be to stay as true to myself as I can and stay humble.

I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.