Franchesca Ramsey Quotes

I've never been comfortable being a pawn. I work with brands where I feel like I can have my say and companies that I'm proud to be in a relationship with. Partnerships take a lot of time. If I am going to put my name and my face and my energy behind something, I want it to be authentic.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

I'm real. I believe what I'm saying. If Motel 6 wasn't the type of operation they say it is - and I stay at them when I travel - I wouldn't do their commercials. That comes through on the radio, and that's what it's all about.

You can't lie to your audience. You can't lie to your fans.

The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.

I have been very careful about what kind of products and companies I endorse just because I don't want to be promoting anything that I don't have any kind of connection to.

I wanted to be trustworthy to the audience.

If you have a dishonest moment, you're going to lose the audience. So I had to not only light myself in the scenes.

The NFL is a unique work place. There are no secrets anymore. Technology has taken over, and secrets are exposed. People are going to know what you're all about. You have to make sure you have real honesty in the work place, or you're going to be exposed.

America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.

I don't take on a product unless I believe in it. I use everything that I sell.

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

I don't really lie about anything, I have to be honest. I like to live with the truth.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.

Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

Voters crave authenticity.

There's a bit of truth in everything I do, you know.

Most politicians are not authentic.

Kids know when you're pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they're being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.