Quotes About Honesty

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

In families like mine, there is no crime worse than telling the truth.

If I'm not getting played on the radio and I'm not making any money, I have nothing to lose by telling the truth.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

A lot of people live by telling lies. I live by telling the truth.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client or someone who's living their life just every day - is that the truth has a funny way of not going away, and telling the truth is extremely important in dealing with any problem or crisis.

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

Being a parent you want to be strong for your kids and ninety percent of being a parent is not telling the truth.

There's a part in a woman's soul, God has given it to every woman, and it's the part where you know whether he's telling the truth or not. Women see red flags.

This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.

When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.

I think it's time for the media and our leaders to get real and start telling the truth about the impact of adultery on our national life.

I never criticized one person in any way that I did not believe was true. How am I a mean guy if I'm telling the truth? Because nobody wants to hear the truth.

I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth.

When I look at material, I get excited by things that are telling the truth because that's what you want to do: tell somebody else's truth.

When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.