Quotes About Honesty

And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.

I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.

Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.

Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

I try to push and find something awkward. The gems to me are truly awkward situations, and you have to have somebody who's willing to fail because those can't be conceived. They never play if they're thought about and discussed too much. You have to create them right at the moment and look for something honest.

It's much easier to cheat than it is to be loyal. Everyone goes through down times. You just don't put yourself in those situations, you know?

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.

I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

You remember had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. And Paul told America, if you elect Republicans, we can fix that. But, if Paul Ryan was being honest, he would've pointed to the debt clock and said, we built that.

You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet.

What irritates me are bands that pretend they've never heard of the Misfits or Danzig, but they've got the skeleton shirt.

I have always been open about the way I live my life, because hiding skeletons in the closet and presenting a picture-perfect image is not my style.

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago.

I don't have any skeletons in my closet.

The best thing about me is there are no skeletons.

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

I'm not a very skeptical person.

I am always a little skeptical when I see people talking about how much money they have.

I'm a very what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of person, and my family always laughs at me. They're like, 'You have minus-zero poker-face skills. We just have to look at your face and we know what's wrong with you.'

I would not say that secret-keeping is one of my finer skills, actually.

I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.