Jake Busey Quotes

The truth is not beautiful --- it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood --- but it is the truth.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

Nothing like war reveals man in the same strength—their courage, their stupidity, their fears, their hopes, their ugliness ….

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.

I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly realist novel, then don't blink. Why not see something for what it is and render it truthfully? I find it a good way of going about writing - not to blink.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.

[Describing slavery:] ... a cruel war against human nature itself.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things.

History is merciless.

Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

An awful lot of actors shy away from the uglier aspects of the human condition. They want to be liked, which is a cop-out. You've got to go for it.

My goal as an actor was just to be somebody very human. I'm not really interested in playing a character who is particularly cool and everything he does looks great and turns out great.

I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.