Quotes About Integrity

I take my work very seriously, and that's the only way for it to be fun for me.

I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.

At a certain point, you have to convince the actors that you've done the right thing. The way I work, if I can't convince them, I've got to move on. I can't coerce them or browbeat them.

It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.

I look for something that grabs me and that's heartfelt, and that's coming from a good place. I want to work with good actors and with directors that I can learn from.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free.

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.

I'll lift up the good work that is happening and hold officers or departments that engage in unconstitutional policing accountable.

Honest work deserves honest pay.

The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.

I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

Making fake promises while wearing a fancy dress... that isn't enough. Promises take more work than that.

Dad always told me that if you're going to work on something, it might as well be something you're proud of.

I only work with people I trust and respect.

The worst thing is to be a designer and create work that isn't honest. You have to be honest. Otherwise, you'll always be a reaction to what other people do and you'll always be one step behind.

My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.

I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.

One thing I want to make clear: You never want to hide from your debts. It doesn't work.