Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

The word "theatrical" makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar things. It's about how you deal with reality, by ignoring it sometimes, reinventing it other times, and that's how you get through it.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

This 'double ethical bind' we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.

Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; It is best to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

To be honest, I don't watch a lot of TV. It's kind of ironic because I'm on TV.

To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.

To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.

To be honest, I was unaware of the huge frat-rap scene that was taking over the blogosphere until I found myself right in the middle of it. But there are really a ton of talented dudes out there doing this, and I'm just having a great time making music and being a part of it all.

To be honest, I would like to have worked with Peter Sellers, because when people talk about classic British actors, you talk about Lawrence Olivier, and Peter Sellers was just in the most amazing films.

To be honest, makeup is a big part of what I do for a living.

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!

To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

To be honest, I'm not much of a drinker. It makes me sick, and I hate that.

To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

To be honest, I never really had watched much sci-fi.

To be honest, I still don't feel like I'm a representative or an ambassador for the sport.

To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends.

To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious zealots - it's biblically accurate and a prophecy fulfilled. The old smoke screen is one of Satan's favorite tricks. He conceals the authentic. He has a persistent strategy of targeting those who remind him of Christianity because he fears those who remind him of Christ.

To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy.

To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.

To be really honest, I don't love the gym.

To be perfectly honest, I was never really aware that I had any special abilities. When you have what you have, you don't really think about what you don't have; you simply work with what you have.

To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.

To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

To be quite honest my country [Colombia] still shows that it can be intolerant.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

To be quite honest, numbers don't tell you everything because audience reactions differ. Some of the biggest films at the box office are not necessarily films that everyone has loved, they just opened to a good response.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.