Quotes About Honesty

I don't even watch basketball. I can't even pretend.

Full disclosure: James Comey is a friend. I won't pretend to neutrality about him. He is a highly honorable and decent person, and I have no doubt that he made the many judgments for which people loathe him in good faith.

I'm very honest about my food background; I've never tried to pretend like I was a chef.

I kind of made the decision early on to be extremely open about everything and just pretend like all of these people watching were my close friends that I could tell stuff to and be honest with.

I just try not to pretend to be something I'm not.

I don't like it when people act extra-familiar and pretend that they are my best friends when they are actually not.

I'm definitely not proud of some of the stuff I did as a youth, but that's where my mind-frame was at one point in my life, and I can't pretend those things didn't happen. I'm not glorifying them, I'm trying to make them into art.

I don't pretend; I'm honest. Sometimes that causes a problem; I always say what I think.

You have to be yourself. You can't pretend to be somebody else.

If you want your rock stars that are completely 100 percent serious about themselves and you want them to pretend like they're 25, I'm probably not the guy for that. But if you want to come and say, 'Hey, you know that guy right there, he's just being himself. I kind of like him for that,' you know, then that's me.

I really wanted a No. 1 single from my first album, but I would not do anything different. It was real and honest and I didn't pretend anything.

I can't pretend to do something I don't like.

In the West, they have morality. We pretend to be moral people but we are not. We do not have a moral code.

I don't like how sometimes people pretend to not be a certain way.

I respect it if you're a really good DJ but you can't produce. What I hate is those who pretend to produce when they have a guy in another room doing all the work. Don't pretend. Everyone will figure it out at the end of the day.

I'm not gonna sit and pretend I'm hard as nails.

I can't pretend that I'm happy or pretend to get emotional when I'm not.

It is too exhausting to try and make everyone happy or pretend.

I don't try to be something I'm not, I don't try to pretend that I'm something I'm not, I don't try to present myself as something I'm not.

I've never been one of those nanas who pretends to be young.

Pretending is the grease of non-relationships. Pretending is how you and I get through the day without ever having to know each other. When I walk in the room, you say to me, 'How are you?' Well, you don't want to know. And, frankly, I don't want to tell you. So I just say, 'Fine,' and you go, 'Fine.' And off we go.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.