Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

I'm usually quite honest about expressing what I feel but there are times when I let things pile up inside me and the hurt feelings take over.

I'm very determined, honest, open and definitely very energetic. I expect a lot as a boss and I'm very demanding, but I ask that of myself too.

I'm very real, very sincere and honest, and that's how I'll always be.

I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.

I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

In an honest man there is always something of a child.

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy. -Lukas Jessen-Petersen

I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'

I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film.

In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.

I never thought I'd ever do a pirate bar, to be honest with you.

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

In love relationships, there's such intimacy, and the potential to be the most vulnerable and honest and raw with another person. Why can't we have that transparency with everyone in our lives and reach that higher connection?

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

Interactive management requires open, honest, and tension-free relationships with others. You do this by negotiating relationships and sharing, so that everybody wins.

I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note.

I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. "Is this okay?" I whisper. "Are you okay?" His reply is anguished. Honest. "I love you.

I really am not angry with Linus. Honest. He's not angry with me either.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

I really don't like conference calls to be honest. It's always something that bloody happens with a conference call - universally never works out.

In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

I really like those days when I can just wear sweatpants, to be honest. And when I'm actually going to go somewhere, I like to be comfortable and casual. If I'm doing something a little more fashion, going a little bit further. It's about expressing yourself and being comfortable and wearing what you like.

I really loved Michelangelo. I've always been a little partial to Donatello to be honest, especially with the animated series. There's just something about Donnie that I really like. But, you know, Mikey's also Mikey. It's kind of just a given he's the most fun one.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

I said with perfect honest, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.

I respect anyone who's honest to themselves and able to bring that into their work in an entertaining fashion.

I say too much sometimes, but I'm honest, that's the important thing.

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there.

I signed the pledge. I have been very good. I have been very straight and honest and honorable. And they're not treating me well.I have won every debate according to every poll, every single online poll after the debate. But way they stack the audiences, the way they talk, they have this lightweight Senator Marco Rubio saying terrible things, just personal, terrible things.

I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am.

I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.

I still have my girlfriends that I grew up with. We went to day care together ... we just feel comfortable with each other. We're honest, we're total goofs.

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

I think about what movie I would like to see. I don't think of them as a correction or palliative. I certainly am irritated by anything that's shot in the Midwest and filled with these noble people. "Oh, they're so good, and they're so honest..." I'm not interested in that. I just think of what's right for a movie.