Richard Foreman Quotes

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

You have to be honest about who you are.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

My life is an open pamphlet.

You get to a point where you get tired of being stupid and selfish and not being honest with yourself.

Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point - that, for me, is always about - and always will be as long as I do this - refining and refining and refining and refining the truth... constantly being as truthful and honest and raw and real as you can be.

In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.