Quotes About Honesty

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

I like to show my cards and see people's reactions.

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

I have no particular reader in mind, but a passionate desire to tell an honest, moving story.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

One thing we never did with 'Bad Company' was talk down to our reader. And we certainly don't do that with the new story, 'Bad Company, First Casualties.'

Truth, honesty, empowerment - it's what I want for myself and my readers.

I'll literally pay three Hollywood readers who don't know me to read my scripts under the radar and give cold comments. And at the early screenings of my movies, I'll hand out questionnaires that can be filled out anonymously so people can be brutally honest because, to your face, they won't be.

I function, I live life as a Christian, and me living life as a Christian doesn't mean I'm a sanitized person. It means that I readily admit I'm a jacked up person, and I need a savior.

I like reading things where someone's looked at what I do with some honesty, and maybe been challenged by it, and they have something to say that shows they've thought about it, even if they don't necessarily like it.

I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest.

I want to seem completely bare. Especially when I'm reading for a role. I want to reveal myself in the audition room. That's where I'm happiest.

Edgar Allan Poe is amazing because he was so dark. He's from Baltimore and so cynical that you can feel it when you're reading, it feels so honest.

I have no trouble saying, as the copy reads, about how caring nurses are, because it's true.

Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.

If I'm not ready to open something up to the scrutiny of the internet, I don't write about it.

Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he said no, more of a papa's boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.

Authenticity can't be replicated or faked. You're either real or you're not.

I don't have any issue with people seeing my real self.

Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person.

I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real.