Quotes About Honesty

When I approach my music and my music videos, obviously all of the subjects and stories that I tell come from an honest, truthful place and the experiences that I've had.

I learned from making a few of these low-budget videos early on that the best way to go about doing it is just to keep it honest and real.

I don't want to make videos that come out looking like commercials or movie trailers.

Christina Grimie was one of my favorite people, not only because she was caring, she was humble, and she always felt like people mattered... but because the first thing she said when she met me was, 'Oh em gee - your videos are really gross, but for some reason, I love you.'

I think the most important part of anyone creating videos or creating anything is just being genuine and having it be true to what you want to do and who you are.

There's an underlying sense with 'Tongue' that... it's really... it's real. I mean that in the sense that now I'm not afraid to touch on relationships and on my sexuality in my videos.

Are all my videos a hundred percent real? Absolutely not.

To be honest with you, I just loved making videos.

We have to face up to the fact that five administrations have lied to us about Vietnam.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.

Sometimes you want pain to be acknowledged and not whitewashed - or erased by some exceptionalist point of view.

I sometimes think it's better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they're not supposed to.

In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.

By 30, I was separated from my husband, and I clearly remember sitting in my lovely office with a magnificent view, staring at a very lucrative pay stub, and bursting into tears because I was just miserable. So I had to make a decision: Keep following my plan, or be honest with myself and search for my true passion.

I do ask myself why I make people so enraged, because I only ever say what I think. And while I know it might not be everyone's point of view, that doesn't seem particularly intolerable to me.

So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just don't find honest. I think it's this idea of - you know, we're told, well, 'Be a man, be a man.' But what does that mean, exactly? Does that mean you can't carry yourself with any fear? That you can't acknowledge that you're scared?

In my entire life, I've never managed to do anything that I've truly been ashamed of.

I'm truthful -- which is very nearly unpardonable in civilized society.

That word doesn't apply to him." "I agree. A man is not entitled to be called a father merely because he once had a well-timed spasm of the loins.

I think that sometimes not giving someone all the information is nearly the same as a lie. You've started on a slippery path, dear. Beware your next step." Lillian

People are always telling us what they think we want to hear. Raw honesty is a refreshing change, isn't it?" "Refreshing for you, perhaps," Phoebe said with a reluctant smile. "Well, you'll certainly get that from Pandora. She's incapable of being awed by anyone." "It's one of the reasons I love her," her brother admitted. "I also love her wit, her zest for life, and the fact that she needs me to keep her from walking in circles.

We men face temptations. Sometimes we stray. It is the way of the world." "It's not my way," Matthew said flatly. "I stand by my word, both in business and in my personal life. If or when I promise to be faithful to a woman, I would be. No matter what.

Nothing is worse than breaking the trust of someone who depends on your protection.

do you know what lying has in common with bullfighting?" "No, sir." "If you can't do it well, it's better not to do it at all.