Openly Quotes

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Someone asked me why I`m politically correct, even when people hit out so openly at me. But the truth is, I`ve never been brought up to behave any other way. I can`t say anything hurtful about anyone. I just don`t believe in saying mean things. I won`t feel good doing that. It`s strange why being well behaved is perceived as being too `propah` and staid. This is the way I am. I`m amazed how many people feel good hitting out at me. They`re welcome to do it. Earlier, they had more leeway to deny their indiscretions in print. But now on television they look pretty ridiculous denying what they say.

- Aishwarya Rai

(on Peter Bogdanovich) You`re talking about a man who did something quite extraordinary. He was a film critic. He then went and made "The Last Picture Show," which won a few nominations for the Academy Award. He was very resented for that. Not openly, but deep down inside, the critics said ... kill.

- Burt Reynolds

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.

- Emma Thompson

With regard to the northern passage, your majesty might undertake the search openly, and in your majesty`s name, as a glorious enterprise.

- Henry Hudson

I get like 400 Holocaust scripts. That`s what you get for being the openly Jewish actress!

- Natalie Portman

In Hollywood, if you are a man and speak your mind openly, you`re considered a man in full. But, if you are a woman and do the same, you`re nothing but an annoying bitch.

- Sigourney Weaver

There`s a lot of Liberace in me and as a gay artist as such, but I am an openly gay man. A lot of my audience is the same kind of audience that Liberace would have had and they didn`t seem to give a shit. I think that`s so great.

- Elton John

I have been doing this on and off since I was a teenager and never once seen violence. If I want to see violence or what I call shameful behaviour, the idea that women in clubs these days have to hold their hand over their drink for fear of being drugged ... Please don`t tell me as a member of the straight community that I am taking risks. I know what I do and I am sorry, but we should not be taking questions like this, from straight women in particular ... I do not deserve the criticism. What I don`t have respect for is some demand for answers from an openly gay man who is living his own life. I have not cheated or lied about my sex life to anybody in my life, in my entire life. I hate not to be able to rise above it, but there is only so much you can take. I`m suing the individual involved who I have never, ever seen, let alone wanted to have any kind of sexual encounter with, and I`m currently investigating suing the secondary sources of libel. I am taking legal action against the photographers because they`re harassing me and I should not have to worry about who`s watching me at 2:30 in the morning.

- George Michael

He was just beautiful...Errol (Flynn). He himself openly said I don`t know really anything about acting, and I admire his honesty because he`s absolutely right.

- Bette Davis

I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.

- Dalton Trumbo

There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.

- Timothy West

My father is openly gay. He really loved my mother, but their marriage fell apart. When they separated, he told me he was bisexual and unfortunately, I was 12 and trying to figure out my own sexuality. I was really upset and angry and took me a long time to get over it. Ive seen him suffer. Now were best friends, and hes seen Joy many times.

- Ben Curtis

I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I`ve retained over the years.

- Giorgio Armani

Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual.

- Tom Ford

(On being gay) "From the time I told my mother, I`ve been living openly. But really, I was born in 1956. I`m one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades. My family referred to them as "fags", and that was it."

- Nathan Lane

I can`t openly say that human rights are violated in Cuba. I don`t have either the moral authority or the knowledge that would allow me to say so.

- Néstor Kirchner

Many of the Mexican officials have talked about this Matricula card openly and stated that it was their way of getting around the Amnesty problem.

- Tom Tancredo

The COC openly expressed its support for the inclusion of these sports at the assembly. It`s extremely unfortunate that these sports will no longer be showcased at the Pan American Games.

- Michael Chambers

I think that the filmmakers entering the field today are from the first generation to openly challenge the legitimacy of religion.

- Richard King

Many times in our society, children are the forgotten grievers because they don`t grieve the way we do. They don`t openly talk about how they are feeling because they don`t have the vocabulary. How on earth would kids know how to describe these feelings?

- David Kessler

He`s openly gay but doesn`t flaunt it. I think you would be floored by the amount of gay people at our school.

- Jennifer Roberts

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

- Italo Calvino

If we heard anybody openly calling for the assassination of the U.S. president, we`d be absolutely out of our minds about it.

- Tom Roberts

The contract with Jenson, which I would not want to discuss openly, does not have an engine escape clause,

- Frank Williams

People forget what everything was like back then, ... I was wondering how I would go over since I was so openly queer. Some clubs wouldn`t let me do open-mike night (in New York). I couldn`t do the gay thing (and this is just 14 years ago.) Fortunately that feels like a thousand years ago. Everything has changed.

- Suzanne Westenhoefer

Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.

- Adm James D. Watkins

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

- Alan Adler

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

- Alexei Makarkin

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation`s laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens.

- Alireza Jafarzadeh

Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.

- Alison Lewis

I am a republican. I have avowed it openly in monarchical but free England; and am happy to state that I have lost nothing by this avowal there.

- Allison Baker

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

- Alvina Tan

Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.

- Amanda Sluss

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

- Andre Grjebine

What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.

- Andre Nel

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

- Andrea Bagley

Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.

- Andrea Hoffman

Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.

- Andrei Krivtsov

I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.

- Andrew Saunders

We hope our Prime Minister can openly and publicly speak to the President of China to urge him to stop the persecution,

- Andy Gomarsall

an openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Reagan progressive feminist.

- Andy Schulz

Most importantly, I am thankful to Prime Minister Koizumi, ... As I said openly during my court-martial, Prime Minister Koizumi will always remain in the heart and prayers of me and my family.

- Angela Coleman

He is the first chef-restaurateur who has dared to admit openly, and even elevate to the status of a doctrine, his belief that a chef can serve his customers with the world`s finest food without constantly slaving at the stove himself. ... I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.

- Anna Bowes

(Daley revealed the interview at the news conference. He said federal agents questioned him for two hours, asking about) a number of subject matters. ... answered their questions fully and openly.

- Art Larson

Through this program we aspire to give youth a comprehensive picture of the magnitude of this crisis and to provide a forum in which this disease can be discussed frankly, openly and honestly, ... We hope this forms a basis of a pro-active youth response to the crisis.

- Arthur Rock

A good manager doesn`t try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you`re the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that`s healthy.

- Robert Townsend

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero