Mel Brooks Quotes

Being that frank and being that open, there's more praise than there is negativity. It's just the negativity gets printed because you're straight and f - ing rude. It's not rude, it's just getting straight to the point.

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life.

Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are.

In real life, I'm so brutally honest that it almost works against me sometimes.

Well, I think sometimes I am brutally honest.

It's really hard for me to beat around the bush or lie, so sometimes the truth hurts.

My mom has this thing where she doesn't sugarcoat stuff.

I say things directly and to the point because I don't know anything else.

You know me: I'm always down to be brutally honest.

I'm very direct and I don't sugar coat anything.

I'm brutally honest with people.

I'd rather have someone who tells me straight up what happens rather than sweet things that I want to hear.

I am very blunt, and people don't like it.

I have a tough time beating around the bush and just saying something you want to hear. I kind of say it how it is, even if I don't realize that's maybe not what I should say at the moment.

Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

I am not cruel, only truthful.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company.

Hey, a disclaimer about me: I’m rude.

If I don't like someone, I'll let that person know. I'm not very diplomatic. I understand that.

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

I'll answer anything... I'm brutally honest, actually, which gets me in trouble.

I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.