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Brutally Honest Quotes

Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is with my kidsThe bundle of bright yellow warming my core, formerly frozen and uninhabitableThey got yellow from me, and I felt yellow giving it to them and it was all goodSo, why am I leaving my show? It took my yellow. I wanted it back. Without it I can't live. The gray kills me.
- Rosie O Donnell

Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to be powerful enough to justify taking up any more of their time? I was doing him a favor, really. Freeing him up for a better opportunity. In fact, I was a practically a saint, if you really thought about it. Exactly.
- Sarah Dessen

To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I mean that in the abstract. I had become acutely aware of people around me who appears to have the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, but as long as they didn't identify with me, I was in no rush to identify with them. My situation allowed, if not complete denial, at least a thick padding of insulation.
- Michael J Fox

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
- Lauryn Hill

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.
- Boris Johnson

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.
- Donal Logue

To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.
- David Millar

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
- Richard J Needham

I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.
- Indra Nooyi

The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are 'brutally honest.' When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend...And the best men cook for you.
- Whitney Otto

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.
- Richard Roxburgh

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