Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I’m unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I’m angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I’m very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something.
It’s a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD, but there are extra bits on it that aren’t on anything else, so as exciting as that sounds.
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
I’m very honest about my food background; I’ve never tried to pretend like I was a chef.
To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.
If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, ‘Man, you were so honest – can’t you have some fun? Can’t you do some really down and dirty lying?’ But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I’ll be punished.
Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn’t seem to want.
You know, I was really privileged to meet Woody Allen, who is now a filmmaker, let’s be honest. He’s also an actor. And he’s classic. And because I have no conception of what classic fashion is now, I respond to his slightly outdated sensibilities.
Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.
To be honest, it’s more fun being the underdog.
I don’t know if I could write songs if it wasn’t for the female race, to be honest with you.
When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you’re in. Through a comedic voice, you’re talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it’s race relations or politics or anything that’s happening on a global or an American scale.
Be honest with yourself about what you’re blowing off. A little cancellation here or a bow-out there can add up… but only if you refuse to acknowledge your actions.
I’m not two-faced, I’m honest, and I tell it the way it is. And I’m not good at hypocrisy, pretending to be someone I’m not.
You’ve got to be honest; if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
I’ll be honest. We copied everyone… the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.
To be honest, I am very comfortable with myself.
Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
My children feel proud of me. Since their father is honest, they have nothing to be ashamed about.
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they’re going to make mistakes.
To be honest, I really don’t like being the sex object.
This is bad for policy-making – if you cover up the problems, how can you solve them? It also corrodes public trust. Government must be much more honest about the challenges facing the country, if we are to begin to tackle them. Short-term spin must give way to proper long-term strategic thinking.
People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.
And my parents’ separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn’t been getting on.
If I’m honest, I thought Westlife would keep going for longer than it did – we all did – but it sort of came to a natural end. When we decided we were going to split, I thought, ‘If I’m going to sing, I’m going to have to do it solo.’ Also, financially I was broke, so the decision was ultimately made for me.
You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can’t leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I’m that messed-up one in the family.
I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It’s my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.
If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.
The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Growing up in Highbridge was real. Me and all my friends, we never really went to any other places in the Bronx but Highbridge. We always just stayed in Highbridge. It was like territory, to be honest, because Highbridge is like a town.
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.
I believe in love that’s fun, that is caring, giving, and that is honest.
I’ve always been a fan of telling honest stories.
The God’s honest truth is that, being the singer, my body’s my instrument.
To be honest, there is no place like home.
The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government – the people’s government – clean, open and honest.
I am a very honest, open person and I think there is a tendency in celebrity autobiographies to gloss over certain things which have happened.
To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for – if you are honest – you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn’t know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, ‘Just call my name to see where I am,’ because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends.
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.
Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we’re not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don’t evolve.
Be prepared and be honest.
Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed.
To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.
I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.
It’s wonderful to feel supported, but there’s a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head.
The key to success is to be honest, follow your passion and not someone else’s path.
We don’t really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It’s not some I usually – I can’t really talk about other people’s tracks never mind my own.
If there wasn’t struggle you would never grow. You would never become who you’re meant to be. And let’s be honest. It would also be… super boring both in movies and in life.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
If you’re honest about things, people will trust you, even if you’re a bad guy. That says something about where we are and who we are as people.
A winner for me is someone who stands up for the right, is honest and can even go against their friends while pursuing truth.
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
I’m completely honest with everyone I deal with. I genuinely care about people. I want to see people succeed and be the best that they can be. So, I wanted to write a motivational book about life, love and the pursuit of happiness.
It is when I am working that the real me comes out – that is when I am the most real and honest.
Well, I mean, Russia was responsible for shooting down MH17. Russia was responsible for invading Ukraine. Russia is responsible for taking away the chemical weapons in Syria that they didn’t take away. Russia was responsible for having honest athletes in the Olympics when they did the whole doping program.
