Quotes About Honesty

If you can be anything, be real.

A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.

Give your trust sparingly and only to those who have earned it.

Real Men can commit to 1 person. Only boys are "Players", pimps usually get lock up or die at the end of movies, & dogs catch fleas!

I am not fake, I am just too good to be true (-:

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone's honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

#1 Dating Tip: Make Sure Your Date has a Conscience!

I don't talk about having cancer in my standup anymore. I don't have cancer. But if it comes up for me again, that I'm going through something, I'm going to talk about it. I'm going to do whatever feels right whenever it feels right.

Standup is a place where, as long as it's funny enough, you can say your most embarrassing things, shameful things and disappointing things.

I'm neither sexy nor a star.

Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest - and sometimes painful - self-assessments.

My parents have ensured that we never develop starry airs.

There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.

If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way - as I did in the beginning at 'Colors' - then I'm going to do it.

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury.

There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.

I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.

Many employer-employee relationships are built on a lie that starts from the first interaction: neither party automatically conceives of the relationship as something that will last a lifetime, but both interact as if it is. This lie of omission bases the relationship on distrust.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.