Quotes About Integrity

I don't want any freebie fights.

I've been through Strikeforce, UFC now, but I never leave fights busted up.

The people who know me, the fans who've watched my fights, they know what I'm about. They know that I'm going to give 100 percent of everything I have each and every time I get into the octagon.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

I figured I would always be a candidate for man of the year in the virtue-is-its-own-reward category. What that did was force me to concentrate on the work.

I figured there's nobody who's going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can't help if people don't like me up there in Washington. I've got a district that I respect, and I think it respects me.

An actor is known by his choices, not by his box-office figures.

I'm not gonna be someone I'm not, because I don't want them to draft someone who's not me, and then I have to try and fill that role. I'm gonna be me, and hopefully a team falls in love with me.

I would never try to fill John Lewis's shoes. I can only be myself - my authentic self.

I don't just like fillers, and I never put a filler on a record. I mean, I want every song on every album that I do to be a potential single.

I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.

I belong to the film industry and it's the only industry that has no corruption.

I think, as a filmmaker, you're always responsible for your film.

As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

I've never been linked to a co-star or director, never had drunken stupors or been disrespectful of a producer's position. I don't have parents intruding in filmmaking affairs and so on. I'm a professional and like to look at myself that way.

After the success of 'Krishnan Love Story,' I have decided to work only on good films.

I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.

Mase was never a filthy artist.

In the final analysis, finding a way to do clean business and not to pay bribes actually improves your bottom line.

In the final analysis, you get what you pay for.

The structure of private campaign finance has essentially pre-corrupted our politicians, so that they can't even recognize explicit bribery because it feels the same as what they do every day.

My low point was after being reorganized out of running Merrill Lynch. That dismissal deeply contradicted my sense of fairness, since, at the time, my team and I had done what we were brought in to do: We had turned Merrill Lynch around from the depths of the financial crisis.

I like to work with directors where you feel they make the movies not for the audience, but make them for themselves. They don't care if it's a success financially. That's what I like.