Milan Kundera Quotes

As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you tempted to lie. Failing that, I'd rather be disliked for who I truly am than loved for who I am not. So, I tell my story. I write it down. I even publish it. Sometimes this is a humbling experience. Sometimes it's embarrassing. But I haul around no terrible secrets.

It's very important to be as transparent, as real as possible, as a person.

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

I never lie to my fans.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Being slick is not the right answer.

It's so much easier to be truthful. Maybe I'm just too lazy to lie.

There's freedom in being rigorously honest. I lied all my life.

In love, I've been a deceiver. But I realized being honest is so much easier than lying and being deceitful.

I don't like people lying; I like honesty.

I'm not going to pretend to be anything I'm not.

I'm not going to lie to people.

I'm not one for lying to children.

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.

I personally don’t have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse.

Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.

Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.

I like to think I am honest and open.

I'm very open and very honest about my actions, especially to the NXT universe. I never lie to them. I never do. I am very real with them.

I'm the kind of guy if you ask me a question I'll tell you the truth if it's hurting me or not. If it's good or bad, I'll cut to the chase and that's the way it is.

I'm not a guy who plays political games, and I believe absolutely in one method, which is directness.

I think you've got to be as honest as possible in order to influence someone.

There's nothing wrong with being honest about what you are.