Quotes About Honesty

I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.

I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.

You can't trick The Universe - it's like Santa Claus that way.

I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.

It is plain old-fashioned wrong when people lie and trick other people.

Most guys open their closet and tend to wear about 10% of what they own - and they wear that 10% over and over again. So the trick is to be honest with yourself and figure out what that 10% is.

We don't teach player development in that way, to be able to try to trick the officials or make sounds or jerk your head back.

I may be a maverick, but it doesn't mean I like playing tricks.

It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'

It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

I try not to do tricks because I don't want to be caught with it. It's a risk.

I've always been 100%. I don't grandstand for the cameras. I don't have fake outrage or indignation. No tricks, no screaming or throwing my leg on the floor.

When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us.

I have tried to be honest with every single character that I have played because I don't know the methods or I don't know tricks to act.

The tricky thing is, from what I've heard, I'm a bit emotionally unavailable.

And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

There are those moments when you know that you are up against a tricky customer who is not being forthright with the truth, and there is no way you're going to let them off the hook.

I have tried so hard to do right.

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.

I have never tried to impress anyone, including my parents.

I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.

I think the important thing is that I've never tried to be someone I'm not. People can read right through that.