Frank Sinatra Quotes

I think honesty is an important thing when writing a song. If you can't sing it with conviction, then no-one else is going to believe it.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

On stage you can get away with a lot more in the sense of emotion and truthfulness. But the camera is the eye of God. It sees everything.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

Songwriters tell the truth.

We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it.

I deliver my Truth hot and hard.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?

I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's a little bit like me.

Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I'm nothing but honest.

It's just about being honest. I listen to a lot of stuff that's out there, some of which I wrote, and I'm like, 'Where is that? Where's the honesty?' So that's what I want to get to in my music now.

I have always made music with passion, love and honesty.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

You have to really care about what you say. And if you don't, it will never come out quite right, unless you go into acting, in which case you have to act fast before you realize it is something which you do not believe in.

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.