True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
Life comes down to honesty and doing what’s right. That’s what’s most important.
I don’t think it’s more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck.
It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me.
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.
Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you’re able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that’s the most liberating thing about being an artist.
I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.
My favorite series of ‘Peep Show’ is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don’t write it. It gets better and better.
Actors can become technically sound, but honesty always translates, even if you are not doing a lot of things on camera.
I don’t know that I’m going to entirely do cloth diapers. I’d like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can’t say that I will.
If you have capabilities then the audience will accept you with an open gate. The way you would show them your identity, they will accept you. But you should have the honesty to show your true identity.
I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news. I appreciate honesty.
Honesty is the best policy, I think – there’s no point trying to be fake, and that’s one thing I never have been.
I was determined not to sit around and watch my life deteriorate. I kept reaching out in hope and honesty that someone would find me. I never gave up hope. I fell flat on my face and got up again.
People are consuming more than ever, but I think they want a bit of honesty and depth. Adele, Gotye, Janelle Monae – they’re giving you a catchy song, but it’s also a challenging song at the same time.
In a way, there’s nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can do is bring yourself to it, bring as much honesty as you can to it.
I believe in the fact that an audience has one heart. I can just tell you one thing: If I sing the ‘Adagio,’ and I pull it out with all the honesty I have – whether they’re Japanese, Italian, American or Belgian or French – they will react in the same way.
I’m a firm believer in absolute honesty.
Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn’t mean that people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I’m leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, and that’s it… I can only do what I do.
I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn’t otherwise.
My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.
That’s a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.
I want people to see an honesty within me. I’m not trying to be the next Sam Cooke or Otis Redding.
Honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist. But so what?
I believe, as artists, I do think we have a responsibility, and there’s also a place for a lot of different artists. It is nice when music captures the honesty of the time but also what we’re going through in that moment.
Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.
In all honesty I think that I’ve had a very normal life, even though I’ve been making movies since I was 9.
Maybe sometimes you are punished for honesty, but I always prefer to be honest.
In all honesty, my favorite place to write is an anonymous, cheap hotel in a city or town where nobody knows me, the wireless service is spotty, and the adjoining gas station has coffee, beer and junk food.
There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn’t my calling card.
My experience is authenticity and honesty always works best with people my age and younger, and even older. Millennials specifically really respond to keeping it real about your opinions.
I’m very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don’t know what I want to do from one day to the next. I can’t enjoy anything premeditated; I just do it as I feel it. But whatever I do is motivated by honesty.
When ‘The Awakening’ was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author’s home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty.
Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone’s human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they understood.
There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn’t seem to come with them.
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
As a human, you tend to lose your calm at some point. But I ensured I was being myself through the journey. I feel people liked my honesty and casualness.
If you want honesty and love, you have to be honest and loving and loveable.
The honesty of my material and my being vulnerable was from Richard Pryor. He doesn’t mind talking about his life, which is why I think he was one of the dopest to ever do it.
A romantic relationship requires honesty between a couple.
I’m all of those things that I was brought up to really value: honesty, stick with it, don’t quit, don’t cut and run, stay in there. When you think things might fall apart, believe that you have enough for victory. That’s the stuff I have in me.
We have a set of core values. Honesty, respect.
Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don’t have a relationship at all.
Please don’t compare me with Taher Shah. He is a joker, while I am an artiste – I am a model and an actress. Taher Shah comes, makes people laugh, and goes away. I work with a lot of honesty.
TV is a major force in our lives – a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that’s capable of transporting you.
We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don’t always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.
I never met Lou Reed, never was one of those journalists lucky enough to be the object of his derision, contempt, condescension, indifference, and occasional piercing honesty.
I’m an actor so I approached my debut with as much honesty and integrity towards the character that I was given to play.
I enjoy the honesty of English football, because nobody gives up, and almost all the best players are here. Italian football is at the bottom because of all those scandals. Their league is not very interesting.
Living such an opaque life has forced me never to take transparency, openness, and honesty for granted.
In all honesty, I don’t know what one song can change.
Being truthful is a necessity because when I’m not being truthful it takes a toll on me. I don’t have any room for it in my life. I don’t have an across-the-board opinion on honesty in relationships. But for me, personally, it’s paramount.
Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It’s not about nutrients and calories. It’s about sharing. It’s about honesty. It’s about identity.