Margaret Trudeau Quotes

The world is so mysterious, and there's so many social interactions where I have no idea what I'm supposed to do - what's being asked of me, what's expected of me.

Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don't be ambiguous and play hard to get. It doesn't work. You'll end up in the friend zone.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up.

Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.

I say what I think and I think what I say.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.

I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one.

In my own personal career, I have felt almost the most difficult thing to deal with is someone who doesn't tell you what they are thinking.

I don't like to say things that I wouldn't want to say to someone's face. Those are my morals for life.

I am very clear and very honest. I can say one thing, and you look at my face, and it is clear.

I'm not a fake person.

What you see with me is what you get. I don't have to conduct a poll to figure out what I'm going to tell somebody. I don't have to hire some consultant to come up with some cute catch phrase. I just call it like I see it.

I am not sultry. I don't know what I am.

Whether you like it or not, with me, what you see is what you get.

I'm a very honest person, and I'm quite emotional for a man. If I want to say something, I'll say it.

'Eleanor' was so much fun to write, because there's a brutal honesty about her. She's got no filters and no concept of social norms.

I'm a straightforward person. I think sometimes it comes off the wrong way.