Quotes About Integrity

There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

One of the things I'm concerned about is that I really want to make sure the races of all the characters are kept. I don't like it when black characters become white in movies, or things like that.

As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.

Many people think if you say "no" you just do this to negotiate a better deal, and they didn't understand that Daft Punk really meant "no" because they didn't want to do certain things.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?

An actor cannot say no, it's against his job. If he wants the part he has to say yes. [But] it's very bad for you to say you can do something and then not do it, so you have to manage to do it.

I'm afraid that a certain situation drives me to be someone that I am not, and I always want to be honest and real. I want to be me.

Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?

I am part of the left; I feel loyal. I don't want to do things that will be damaging to what I believe in.

There's something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren't.

The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted.

I just think, who wants new soul? I want my soul to be the same as Otis Redding, I don't wanna have a new one.

I really believe in the last name Hoffa being something powerful. You want to live your life to bring honor to that name.

If you feel like you're not where you want to be in your life, rather than step on someone else's, raise your stature.

And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States.

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

You just have to follow your own heart. I listen to so many different kinds of music and at the end of the day you want to make a record that you're super proud of.