Quotes About Honesty

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

I want to be as honest as I possibly can. I sleep better at night.

I'm as honest as I can possibly be when I write.

People tend to not post when they're at their worst, but I try to be as open as I can be with my fans.

I've decided that I'm not going to filter as much of what I post, because what's the point?

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.

I talk about postpartum depression and all these things I don't hear a lot of women talking about on TV.

The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.

I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.

Maudlin scenes where people pour their heart out to one another? I don't want to see it.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

I consider myself to be a very loyal person.

If a candidate believes in a no deal exit, they should be straight with the British people that it will come at a very considerable cost.

I've always considered myself a master in the art of real talk.

What I try to do is tell my constituents that this is what I believe and this is why I made that vote. And I think that that makes more sense to people generally than trying to triangulate some political position.

If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that doesn't exist.

At the end of the day, if you can't say a line right, it does not matter who your contacts are.

I really believe in people putting stories out there that contain the most difficult moments because nothing to me is more lonely making than sanitized stories or airbrushed stories that kind of allied how hard it got.

I have never broken a contract in my career.

If you can't honor your contract, that's the type of company I don't really want to be associated with.

We don't listen to people that contradict themselves.

I can't stand characters with contradictory information.