Honest Quotes

I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

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.

You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

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.

To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

I'm honest about the journey I've been on, so I definitely don't take dating lightly anymore.

In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground.

Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.

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

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

To be honest, I feel like I think too much. So I like working out because it makes me kind of relax.

The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we would find ourselves with a much larger deficit than we have today.

I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.

I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.

He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

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.

Not really interested in covering other bands songs to be honest.