Quotes About Honesty

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

Personally, I have never considered myself corrupt or seen the need to be so. People are judged as what they are perceived to be.

As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life.

I've never interviewed anyone where I set out to try to persuade them to reveal something. Instead, it's about creating a space that allows someone to be authentic without judgment on my part.

Normally, politicians lie because they want to persuade us of the truth of what they are saying. A candidate for Congress will claim that he earned a medal of honor when he did not, so that we will love and revere him.

Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.

I don't really like Phil Robertson and I think his opinion about gay marriage is stupid. But in a country where we want an honest conversation, we have to realize that part of the honest conversation is hearing things we don't like and discussing them.

Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.

I'm always a big fan of if you approach somebody politely about something and you're not a nudge - you're just pretty honest and simple, my kind of philosophy is that I'm not afraid of 'no,' and that's way different than 'I won't take no for an answer.'

He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

There's something different about looking someone in the eyes and doing something dishonest to doing it over the phone or screen.

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

I'm just happy I'm not a phony.

You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.

I'm a lot of things but not a liar or a phony, even when I know it's in my best interest to be.

I cannot be phony.

The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.

I don't think there is a single character in 'The Graduate' that is not a phony, to one degree or another, except Benjamin and Elaine, and only in the scenes when they are alone together.