Forthright Quotes

on Arnold Schwarzenegger: "My line about Arnold is that he doesn`t get in his own way. He is not apologetic about achieving his goals. And when you have that attitude, it`s amazing what one can accomplish. He wanted to give me relationship advice. I was having trouble with a female friend, and he said, be really forthright and do not accommodate her needs excessively. I took his advice and we`re not friends anymore. So there you go."

My line about Arnold is that he doesn`t get in his own way. He is not apologetic about achieving his goals. And when you have that attitude, it`s amazing what one can accomplish. He wanted to give me relationship advice. I was having trouble with a female friend, and he said, be really forthright and do not accommodate her needs excessively. I took his advice and we`re not friends anymore. So there you go.

I don`t `handle` people. It`s so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It`s very easy to say whatever`s going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It`s difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

He was a wonderful, forthright and honorable man. - Following the death of Gary Cooper in 1961

(About "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (1996)) "The show is meaningful to kids and I think it does have a great message. I mean, I wish when I was a kid that I`d been watching a show where women were so clever and so forthright and powerful. I love the way that Sabrina deals with boys. I love the equality in their relationships. We didn`t have that when I was a kid. We didn`t have people like that to look at."

Job`s forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

We have similar backgrounds in many instances, ... We have never been reluctant to take on the Establishment, so to speak, and we`ve been forthright in our objections to the so-called `Good Ole Boy` network.