Honest Quotes

Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary.

Because I don't really think of myself as a hunk, to be honest.

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

Just open, honest communication is the best thing in the world.

I am not honest.

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.

As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best.

To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication that I want to be in a political office.

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films... Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that.

I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something.

I love New York... I think it's the best city in the world. As far as cities go, everything's there. I think it's so vibrant. I love the people, I think they're honest, in your face. If they don't like you, they'll say, 'Get out of my way,' if they like you they'll slap you on the back and support you. It's a very intoxicating environment to be in.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.

All I care about, to be honest, is surfing. I love surfing more than anything. To me, there's nothing like that.

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

If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way - as I did in the beginning at 'Colors' - then I'm going to do it.

I don't really watch a lot of TV, to be honest. I'm more of a movie girl, or I Netflix stuff.

My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

I am pretty honest about a lot of things that young girls question, like their body image.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.

Some have said it is the easiest group at the World Cup, but we realize it won't be like that. Germany are a tremendous side, but to be honest I don't know much about Cameroon and Saudi Arabia.

I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.

I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that.

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

At least I can say that I'm honest.

What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.

You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.

My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

I'm as honest as I can be.

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

I would like to be a polyglot.

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?