Quotes About Integrity

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

If me believing helping others should come before Instagram posts is 'stupid'... you got me right.

If you behave like a stupid moron, you're going to get called out by me.

I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to.

I don't hide or play stupid games.

I'm definitely careful. I'm not reckless or stupid, but that's how I was raised, to not be stupid or immature in as far as trying to grow up too quickly or putting forward a certain image that isn't me.

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I'll stop the whole production: 'Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.'

I will do whatever is necessary to make better the stupidity on my part - and therefore go after those who are acting stupid themselves. It's not popular. You don't make friends when you do that. And I couldn't care less.

My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away.

Everybody has to have his own style, his own game. Everybody has to be himself. I'm listening to nobody. I have my own mind, my own heart.

It's wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don't care about style or money.

My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

The hardcore fans have hung with us because they go, 'Hey, they don't disappoint.' And we stick to that style.

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

I'm a real big Marilyn Manson fan. I get a lot of my styles from him. Not even musically - living-wise, too. Marilyn Manson definitely shows me you shouldn't care what nobody say. I watched a bunch of his interviews, and he's not just an artist; he's one of the most intelligent people I ever saw in my life.

Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.

People talk to me about celebrities all the time and which ones do I admire, and it's so hard because you can't tell who's doing it for themselves and who hired a stylist.

Our job as directors is to really give the audience a sense that all this exists in a universe somewhere. Even if it's a slightly more stylized or comedic world than we live in, it's still really important that it has an authenticity and integrity to it.

If you pretend to be somebody that you're not when you write songs - and I did that on some of the early Styx albums - nobody cares about what you have to say.