Quotes About Integrity

Young people want someone to tell them the truth. They want to be inspired.

What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in.

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

My business is not reading your messages. I don't have a business doing that. And it's against my values to do that. I don't want to read your private stuff.

The national security issues are a really good window into the character of the person that somebody wants to have as commander in chief.

I know there are a lot of people who believe in me as a player and a person, and I don't want to let them down.

Who wants to be reputable? That's for golfers and tycoons with a sleazy past.

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.

Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?

I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.

I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.

You do a movie if it's good and if you want to do it. It doesn't matter if it's small or big or expensive or cheap. If you want to say the words, you're gonna say them. You can't strategize.

I figure it this way - if a woman claims she didn't want me to fudge her, then you already know she's a liar. So what the hell's the point of a trial, y'know?

I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want.

Quality and service are important, if you want to make a sale. If you want to keep a customer for life, keep your promises.

I am very comfortable saying what I believe I can do, being very specific about how we will do it, how we will pay for it, and having people know that I want them to hold me accountable.

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.

I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.