Quotes About Honesty

I try to treat my orientation the same way I would if I was straight, which is to talk about it when it's relevant.

It's difficult to stay relevant for many years, but I've somehow managed to do so. I'm honest and provocative.

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

Since I came out of the closet, I've gotten to just really be myself and feel authentic and honest and genuine. It's just been a huge relief for me competitively.

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective genius he is.

I speak my mind on everything. I'm not reluctant.

I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

The President of the United State is the leader of the free world, and the world has to be able to rely on his or her word, to feel that they have a good moral compass.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. What you see is what you get.

Doping has to be fought, cheats must be unmasked, abuse should be punished but all this should remain human.

I am not a politician-type politician and I want to remain that.

I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.

Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.

Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

The fact remains that I am a very artless and incompetent writer.

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed.