Being Honest Quotes - Page 24

• I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

  Marco Pierre White

  Girl, People, Trying

  "Interrogation: Marco Pierre White". www.mirror.co.uk. February 3, 2012.

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• I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.

  Daniel Bruhl

  Hate, Play, Envy

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• I write because I love to. I'm very, very fortunate to have found something that I love doing that also earns my living. But to be honest, I'd write even if I weren't being paid to.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Writing, Honest, Found

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Mean, Hard Times, Honest

  "Find Out Who You Are and Live That Truth". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. February 1, 2010.

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• It's important to be honest enough about your work, and the areas in which you can improve. I'm still learning every day and I'm still Hungry to create more and better work, hence the name.

  Rankin

  Names, Important, Honest

  Source: ashadedviewonfashion.com

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• Being totally open with your feelings can make everything difficult. However, in front of the person I love, I feel it is absolutely necessary to be honest and open. I belong to the type who will open up about everything.

  Joo Won

  Feelings, Honest, Type

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• I think women are great drivers. To be honest, I've only been in one car accident - one of my best friends, his wife was driving. She went into oncoming traffic, our car flipped almost four times. I didn't even have time to put on a seat belt, because they'd just picked me up.

  Dominic Cooper

  Thinking, Wife, Car

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• When it's a comedy or drama or horror or romance, it's all the same. You want to be honest with the character. You want to play truthfully and you want to be genuine with your character.

  Mila Kunis

  Drama, Character, Play

  "Mila Kunis Interview, Black Swan". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2010.

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• Splashing about in mud in the cold is not my thing. I made an attempt to go to the Isle Of Wight Festival in 1969 when Bob Dylan was playing, but we never made it. We hired a boat from Lymington, but got lost, and by the time we got there the music was over. I wasn't too sad, to be honest.

  Tony Blackburn

  Festivals, Mud, Splashing

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• In the midst of all this turmoil and destruction, the Latter-day Saints should dwell in peace and safety. This they may do if they will be honest with themselves, with their fellowmen, and with their God.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Honesty, Safety, Saint

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1973). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”

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• We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.

  Sam Harris

  Looks, Honest, Profile

  "In Defense of Profiling" by Sam Harris, samharris.org. April 28, 2012.

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• What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.

  Lee Grant

  Father, Son, Directors

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• 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.

  Kim Smith

  Lines, Tunes, Honest

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• They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.

  Alvin Lee

  Journey, Thinking, Years

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• My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

  Hugh Grant

  Ambition, Grandmother, Wind

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• I'm not in a recession. I'm doing very, very well. I'm doing incredibly well. I just want to be honest. I really am kicking ass.

  Jim Carrey

  Kicking, Want, Honest

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• It's a funny thing - the reality is I have no feelings about school. It's long gone. Funnily enough, the bad memories - of which I don't have any left to be honest, I can just remember a sense of tedium - have faded. And teachers that I liked have remained quite vivid. There are three or four left.

  Colin Firth

  Teacher, Memories, School

  "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise - and to be honest, I'm no academic, so I tend to use these words, like in Alice In Wonderland, to mean what I want them to mean rather than what they actually do mean.

  Grant Morrison

  Mean, Want, Might

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• To be honest, I don't see myself acting forever. I just can't imagine myself being a 70-year-old man fighting for roles. I would love to do small parts in my friends' movies or things that I'm directing myself. I do envision myself behind the camera as I get a little bit older.

  Dave Franco

  Fighting, Men, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.

  Amy Adams

  Feelings, Trying, Way

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 6, 2013.

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• I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.

  Danny Brown

  Thinking, Michigan, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm an actress. To be honest, it's a very awkward business. It's one of those things where it's almost like a first date. There's a way you want to come across. You want to show your goods. The truth starts to slip out sometimes.

  Eva Mendes

  Awkward, Want, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. I said real-uh-tor instead of realtor until about five years ago. I just admit I have no idea how to say Theyskens! Don't be intimidated. Just be honest!

  Gillian Jacobs

  Real, Ideas, Years

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• To be honest the work that a producer does is work that I've done for most of my working life. It's work that I started to do, for example, when I worked with Sally Potter on Orlando. We developed it together over five years.

  Tilda Swinton

  Years, Together, Example

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• To be a musician, you have to be honest... to be honest... to be honest.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Musician, Honest

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