Quotes About Integrity

It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful.

I've lived a very colorful life, and I've said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I've never apologized for them - and I won't.

There's some things that no amount of money can get me to do.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.

I misfired and said some things in the past about people, namely John Mayer. And I didn't have the guts to apologize.

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.

Of course, there are some things you keep personal and private because you're a human being. But on the other side of it, I ain't got time to be hiding nothing and all that. It is what it is.

I decided right away that whomever was going to advise me had to be fundamentally interested in music. This protected me from the skullduggery common to the music industry then and that still exists today. Of course, using this method meant that some things we didn't know and just had to learn how to do it together.

Starting off, I was pretty arrogant. They handed an 18-year-old the keys to a D1 FBS-contending university. I blew up a little bit, said some things I didn't mean, and that follows you. You get one chance to make a first impression. I made the wrong one.

I've always done things according to my principles and morals and some things just don't fit in.

I am not going to sacrifice that for something that doesn't mean as much to me as kids mean to me. The kids mean the world to me. If I have to make a decision to cancel some things, I will do it as a man.

You're not going to scare me into being somebody I don't want to be.

If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

I didn't have to be somebody I wasn't coming into the league. I had a great foundation from my family.

I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who had ethics.

I am not somebody who would go on holiday carrying designer clothes and only click pictures for Instagram and then chill in my hotel room.

You can't ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody else's energy. You have to own your thing, or own it with very fiber of your being.

At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.