Unfiltered Honesty Quotes

I'm not a beat around the bush kind of guy.

I'm going to shock you with the truth. I'm just going to give it to you raw, and however you take it, I'm just going to watch your reaction.

[I] take inspiration from kids. ... They're very honest in how they act and how they are in the world.

You want me and I want you. right?" Who did she think she was? You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's Syndrome. He said, "Well, I guess. Yeah, that's right.

Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.

The whole truth... sings only - and all lovers are the song.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

My mom and I are very honest with each other, almost to a fault. But that's just the way I am in life. If you listen to my record, I'm just honest about stupid stuff most normal people wouldn't put in a pop song.

The truth cannot be delivered with novocaine.

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I tell you exactly how I feel.

A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.

When you're really famous, there's very little authenticity in people, so you prefer the company of children.

True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you’re already learning how to make it less harmful.

Children and fools always speak the truth.

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

I always knew that saying the unsayable was going to be a powerful thing.

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

Children are brutal and have no malice, which makes everything they say horribly cutting.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

I don't care if you're obscene, filthy, horrendous -- as long as you're honest.

Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand.

I'm hoping to bring some raunchy, risky, soulful frankness to the stage, really.

Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.

Joanna is a strong female character, and I love playing her. But one of the things about her is that she always says exactly what she's thinking.