No-Nonsense Attitude Quotes

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.

You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.

Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man.

Chicago prides itself on being a mean city.

I have feelings, but not when it comes to basketball. I'm here to win. I'm not here to make friends.

I pride myself on being a jerk, because I'm brutally honest all the time.

When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

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

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

I'm a 'just the facts, ma'am' kind of guy.

Part of North Jersey life is that everyone is obsessed with being tough all the time.

I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue.

All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.

You knew where you stood with Sir Alex Ferguson.

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

There's nobody tougher on the players than me. Nobody.

I'm a very tough dad. I mean, I'm a fun dad, but I'm a tough dad.

I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.

He [Bogie] had tremendous character and a great sense of honor and would not tolerate lies, even if they asked him what he thought of a movie. We were once at a screening at somebody's house, I forget whose, and they ran a movie that he was in, that he never thought much of. Afterward, the producer asked what he thought of it, and Bogie said "I think it's a crock." And this producer was horrified! He was about to release the movie, and he said to Bogie "Why would you say that?!" Bogie shrugged and said "Then don't ask me." He never played the schmoozing game. He was not into that at all.

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

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

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

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.