Quotes About Integrity

Progressives are not going to give up on facts.

When you take a director off a project, that makes a person feel humiliated because everyone knows it. But we're responsible because we put them in that position.

I'm choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You're the one who's there working fifteen hours a day, and if you don't believe in it, it can feel a whole lot longer.

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.

I'm not lying, every single project I've done, they've all been great.

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

I never take on anything that is just for the money or just for, you know. I always have to connect with it in a very personal way because I believe the audience will sense whether I'm into it or not, so I don't take on projects that I'm not really passionate about.

I never had a role that I set out for. I always wanted to have a body of work that I'm proud of. Save for two projects, which will never pass my lips, I'm happy with what I've done.

The way I choose projects is based on what I think is most real and most interesting, not on what's paying the most money or what's most popular.

Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects. But I don't do that anymore. I just want to be off the cuff and honest.

I have four daughters. A lot of the time, I don't allow myself to be in projects that objectify women.

People ask me about past projects I've worked on, and other things; I'm just really bad at lying. I have a bad poker face, so I just try to tell people how I'm feeling in the moment and really what I was trying to do.

I've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make.

I don't want to be promiscuous.

I'm not promiscuous by nature.

I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

A promise made should be a promise kept.

Performance is better than promise. Exuberant assurances are cheap.

I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.

When you make a promise, keep it.

We have realized that corruption is rife, and we are going to address it. We are going to root out corruption, and that is a promise I can make.

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.