Quotes About Honesty

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the record, and every now and then, you might make a song that exposes something a little too much about you, and there's a part that doesn't want yourself to be exposed.

Audiences are brutally honest nowadays. If they don't like an actor, they have all the right to write him off.

You can only be yourself, and it sounds cheesy, but when it comes to filmmaking, there's really nowhere to hide.

Flopping shouldn't get you nowhere.

If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.

Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.

I'm honest, at the end of the day - I'm obese, but I'm not obtuse.

I think being completely authentic about the time you live in is something that I would view as a career-long objective - to find out what is authentically this moment.

In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.

I'm objective because I tell the truth.

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.

As for being an objective journalist? That's easy. I want what everyone else wants: the truth.

I think I should be objective, call 'em as I see 'em. Stay the Tooz.

There's a lot of shiny, pretty objects out there that when you actually touch them, they just fall apart. And it's like, you need to be authentic, you need to be yourself.

Would a good friend, a smart friend, encourage you to do something as dishonorable as not pay a bill you're morally and legally obligated to pay? I don't think so.

There are things that need to be said... and I think it's my obligation to say them.

As a journalist - or as a writer - my obligation is to come as close to the truth as I possibly can. And that's not as close to someone else's truth, but the truth as I see it.

It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it.

Our culture is so obsessed with the idea that you're going to go through a crisis or some difficult event and come out the other side a changed or improved person, and I just think that if you're honest, that often does not happen, and in fact, it shouldn't happen.

I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.

For me, it's always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.