Cliff Chiang Quotes

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

I want to do only those films which come from a real place.

I think the things that can define me is that I'm going to be honest, I'm going to be transparent, I'm going to be as open as I can.

I'm not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it's so that people really know what Bad Bunny's about.

It doesn't matter even if I am slow or fast as long as my films are honest and carries my integrity.

It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.

I want to turn momentum on traffic. I want to make in a dent in homelessness on the way to eradicating it on our streets. But there's always something else to do tomorrow. And you have to be at peace knowing you're not going to finish it all.

You have to be honest about what kind of films you want to make.

I represent my community, and I represent my people. And I've got to be honest if something seems questionable.

For a firm to be exceptional, it has to be led by purpose. Our purpose is to make an impact that matters.

Things that make me angry and sad, I cannot hide. It's not because I want to be a rebel; it's my instinct. When something touches me deeply, I really have to react.

We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.

I like people to be honest and transparent. It bothers me when people feel the need to embellish stories to make themselves look better.

When I do comedy, it's not like I'm trying to be funny for folks; I look for the honesty in it. With James Early in 'Dreamgirls,' it was the honesty of it: it was the reality of the moment. You know, I don't know what makes me play sometimes. I really don't. I just do what I do. And that's what I did for 'Sliders,' and that's how I got the job.

Film is an incredible way to express yourself and your vision, as is fashion, but you have to make sure [to] be confident and honest and true to yourself and say something that means something, because that is really the point of any art.

I feel like people can feel when something is natural. I think they can tell.

For me, real, truthful moments come from a place that I don't know. If somebody was telling me, "You're going to lift your face like this, you're going to do this..." No! I don't want to know. Just let me live it.

To be a musician, you have to be honest... to be honest... to be honest.

The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!

In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.

You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth