Christopher Guest Quotes

Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.

Integrity is incredibly important to me. As long as you're authentic, you can do no wrong.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

It's really important to be honest to yourself.

The second you're not honest with yourself, you've lost everything.

The record books aren't going to lie. They aren't going to say I sold out. They aren't going to say anything.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

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

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

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.

I trust the sentiments and opinions are correct; I had rather be right than President.

This above all,--to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Whatever my faults, I have some principles.

I will never say something I don't agree with or believe in... even if the reward is massive!

So the better thing to do is to be right and be doing the right things for the right reasons rather than trying to be cool and popular and saying whatever thing is going to get good headlines or a big cheer at Glastonbury.

I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.

By being courageous enough to state the difficult truth, the most important reputation that you will preserve is your own.

I believe that being honest to oneself and one's work is all that matters.

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.