Bonnie Hunt Quotes

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

I don't particularly care what people think of me as long as I know what I'm doing is right.

Stay true to your integrity, and if you're doing something that you feel like doesn't represent your integrity, speak up. You have to say that. If you're doing something that doesn't make you feel good, you probably shouldn't be doing it.

I am very thankful and blessed that I haven't had to sell my soul and be anything that I'm not.

I don't think I can live a life of compromise. If I did, I wouldn't be able to sleep properly.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.

My moral standing is lying down.

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.

You have to be able to wake up in the morning and say, 'I've been true.'

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Whether it's corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

Never compromise yourself.

But i think it would drive me more crazy to just go do a movie that I didn't believe in, you know?

I have to feel good about what I'm endorsing because I have to live with it.

I've been really lucky thus far with acting, in that I can do things I believe in and feel good about, and feel good about myself. If for some reason one day that ends, I won't do it anymore. If I feel like I have to compromise myself to continue to be in this industry, I don't want to do that.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.