Tom Shadyac Quotes

You never want to do anything that you don't want your mother to see, because it will haunt you and eventually come back to bite you!

I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

I chose to compromise my principles. I broke my promise to always tell the truth.

I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

Never, ever cheat, especially yourself, even if you are absolutely, positively sure that you can get away with it.

Unlike Casey Cagle, I will always do the right thing, even when no one is looking.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

Cheating is only cheating when you get caught.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

I think character is real important. And you know, and I think the public does.

There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.