Richard Harris Quotes

I will only do something if it has credibility for me, and that includes the films I make, the TV shows I judge and ad-campaigns I sign up for.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

I am not going to tell people what I don't believe.

He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!

I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth.

Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise.

I have people that are affected by what I do, what I say, and that would be the one place where it gets complicated. But being honest and truthful - I just believe that's the best way to be.

People want the truth, even if they disagree.

I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them and try to be liked. That's just the way it goes and I don't think I'm any great champion of anything, but if they're going to put me on a show, I'm going to say what I think.

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

You don't know who to believe. Like Abraham Lincoln. He said all men were created equal. He never went to a nude beach.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

What you've got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don't wuss out.

There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.

Im extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I dont try to be shocking. Im playful, and I know when something Im saying is maybe shocking, but its just the truth, I never wanted to be scary to people or upsetting to people. I simply want to live the way I need to live.

I think that one of the things that Christianity really needs, and the church really needs, is credibility. People need to be able to trust us and they need to believe we really want to help them and that it's not just, I'm-doing-this-for-me type thing.

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

If we attach more importance to what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity.

I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason

People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers are always selling somebody out.