"I respect anyone who's honest to themselves and able to bring that into their work in an entertaining fashion."
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"I'm very upfront and very honest. I don't let a bunch of stuff fester and boil over."
"Children are the most honest critics. They will say "You're funny", but also "You're pathetic - go away.""
"I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'"
"I can't remember any regrets, to be honest with you."
"You can't truly love someone if you also love yourself, just as you can't love someone if you are not honest with them and they with you - otherwise it's just infatuation and desire."
"Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to."
"It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer."
"All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness."
"To be quite honest, I'm not religious."
"Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!"
"I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate."
"The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work."
"Most of the times to be honest with you, I get sexually harassed certainly more than I do to females, because... they are comfortable with me, and because they know I can't take it to a dangerous place."
"A totally honest organization would never hide or disguise actions or stonewall."
"My friends are always honest with me about films. But I really wanted to talk to regular people and kind of have a forum to interact with them; not just about films, but about everything."
"My children keep me real and keep me honest."
"I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not."
"I better be honest about my feelings, even those involving loneliness, jealousy, and fear."
"I think we should be honest about who is working in our kitchens."