Quotes About Honesty

I'm not an inspirational quote kind of person.

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

Please don't quote me.

I don't talk, I quote. I can't help it. It's better to be quotable than honest.

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

That became the Netflix culture: radical honesty.

Instead of trying to be 'radical,' I just try to be true to myself! Is it radical to be true to yourself? Maybe it is. I don't know, but it just makes sense to me, haha!

I'm a naturally open person - some might say radically open.

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.

That's the part I kept trying to say on Queen Radio: I don't have to believe you because you're saying it. I'm not saying you're a liar, I learned that long ago too. There's a big difference between you're a liar and I don't believe you.

I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.

I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road.

There is a war on truth raging every day, and journalists have been forced to fight some of those.

For me, it's about making art that's not good but phenomenal. James Baldwin didn't want to just stay above the fray. Prince didn't think, 'I wonder what the industry is gonna think about 'Purple Rain.'' It's just, is this honest? Is this real? Does this move me? The rest is icing.

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

I guess I was a little idealistic and thought if you are honest and you're well-qualified and capable of waging a good fight, you can raise money. And what I learned is that our campaign finance laws are really a great big incumbent protection act.

The thing is, is to raise your hand. It's not to hide, and it's not to try and pretend or do anything like that. You raise your hand, that's the best thing about it.

I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.

I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.

I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.

I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.

Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

My greatest moment as a jock occurred when I was 14 and playing punch ball in front of my house on Albemarle Road near East 17th Street in Brooklyn. I ran back, back for a ball, and it fell in my hands. I didn't even see it. Everyone congratulated me on the catch, and I never told them how it really happened.