Trevor Noah Quotes

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

There is a difference between being straightforward and careless.

Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.

I'm too blunt, too matter-of-fact and not PC enough.

Being polite does not mean being mummified.

I don't sugarcoat things, but I'm very polite in delivering them.

People don't like when people are straight forward. They like things to be sugar coated. They like to beat around the bush. I'm not that type of person.

I'm opinionated, but I'm not a vindictive person and I never say anything unprovoked, either.

I tell it like it is, but I don't voice my opinion unless it's asked for.

To be rude to someone is not my nature.

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

We don't have to be rude with each other; we have to be diplomatic.

I like people to be authentic, thoughtful, and honest.

I am very moohphat and can never be diplomatic or politically correct.

I'm a very loving, kind person, but I can also be very honest, and I don't do well with drama.

It is my drawback that I am not manipulative and this trait doesn't work in the industry. People in the industry are very manipulative. For me, I will say it if I don't like, and I don't know how to butter people. Even Salman Khan is like that, he is very straightforward and not manipulative at all.

I believe you should always be polite when you ask a question. I totally believe that.

I am sweet and diplomatic in real life.

I'm polite.

I don't like people who are hypocritical, who pretend to be nice, particularly in show business when they're nice on camera, and then off camera they're absolutely appalling to the makeup people, or the waitress in a restaurant, you know? I don't like - I can't bear those kind of people. So I like people who are, you know, up front in your face.

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

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

I don't think I'm complicated at all. I'm not political, and I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, and I don't say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There's no trying to fool somebody.