Brutally Quotes

David Arquette: I’m not very self aware about my career. I probably should be more so. Just to be brutally honest, it’s not like I have every movie at my fingertips. I can’t get seen on a lot of pictures. So I like to take chances with first time directors and try to help with my name to put things together to help raise money for films that might not otherwise get made without me.

She dedicated the film Little Women (1994) to Polly Klaas, a young girl from her hometown of Petaluma, California, who was kidnapped and brutally murdered. She offered a $200,000 reward for anyone with information on the subject, and remains a strong supporter of the Polly Klaas Foundation.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what`s going to maintain relationships.

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.

I`m brutally honest. I don`t sugar-coat. But I don`t come on as a fashion expert. I feel like I come on as the water cooler. That`s my perspective.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

I`m of two minds about the NAACP, I`ll be brutally honest. When I was writing for Sinbad and Roc Live, I remember the pilot for Martin coming on, and a year later, the NAACP giving him an Image Award. a few years later, Martin was under fire for being "coonish" or whatever the word was people were using. And I thought that was the most ridiculous thing I`d ever heard. You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that`s the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message. I want balance. I want to see as many black professionals as possible. I don`t care if a guy plays a wild, broad, completely downtrodden character, but I also want to see an average joe; the middle class has been completely unrepresented. (PopMatters.com, 2000)

This time it was much more intense. Last year, the contestants were kind of `us versus Gordon` right up until the end - this was brutally competitive right from the beginning.

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

These global financial institutions see opportunity in United -- even in the midst of the ongoing brutally competitive industry environment.

The world today has a strong democratic core shaped by American ingenuity, sacrifice, and spirit. But on the periphery are many unstable and dangerous places, where terrorists seek to impose a medieval dark age. As we learned so brutally and so personally, we do face a new threat. But we also face a renewed choice - between isolation in a perilous world, which I believe is impossible in any event, and engagement to shape a safer world which is the urgent imperative of our time.