Armistead Maupin 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.

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

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.

We tap into something when we're honest about what's going on in our lives.

You have to be honest about who you are.

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

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

Anytime I hear songs that are so honest, whether they make the person who's singing it look good or not, there's a level of honesty that resonates with people.

You can't waste time in your life trying to hide the truth.

I have always said what is in my heart.

I am an honest person, and that includes showing my emotions - good or bad.

Don't hide your truth.

Strength, to me, is about exposing vulnerabilities and foibles and facts and people that are honest.

Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.

I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

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.