Quotes About Honesty

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

It's hard for me to lie, I'd stumble with my words if I tried to lie.

The main thing is to keep it simple, keep it real, be honest and pull no stunts. You can't forget where you started and came from.

I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

I think you only have to pull stunts if the content of your music is meaningless.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

I would rather be stupid than pretend to be intelligent.

I'm kind of stupid.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

I'm definitely a hopeless romantic, and I feel stupid even saying that out loud.

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

I don't hide or play stupid games.

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.

My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

There are many styles of standup, but the comedians I like are people like Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor. Because Richard Pryor told the truth. Chris Rock. I love Chris Rock. He's funny, but he's also poignant. He's not there just to make people laugh; he's there to make people wake up, too.

If you pretend to be somebody that you're not when you write songs - and I did that on some of the early Styx albums - nobody cares about what you have to say.

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.

I have always respected the freedom of expression. But the dissemination of false information is lamentable and subject to criminal penalties.

I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.