Quotes About Candor

Tell me–how old are you, Reuben? I'm thirty-eight. How is that for total honesty? Do you know many women who volunteer they're thirty-eight?

I'd wanted to say something epic and honest. But epics are rarely honest, and honesty should never be epic.

Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been a very, very open book.

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.

When you're dealing with your life, my God, you gotta tell the truth.

Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.

I personally don't have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse.

Lead the least secretive life you can.

Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.

This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.

We've got to tell the unvarnished truth

There is no artifice, no manipulation, no games.

You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway.

It was the truth, but that made it no more palatable.

Sometimes honestly really is the best policy.

Somehow, Suzanne had remained uncorrupted; her guilelessness in talking to him was a gift of no small proportion.

will. You convey your exact thoughts, which is a reason people trust you. You never say one thing and think another." "Many would call that rudeness.

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

Always been brutally honest. Some people don't like that because it's rare nowadays.

I think being honest on TV is pretty rare. So if I can be that, I would like to be.

Maybe almost 20 years ago, I was like, 'God, I need to be more direct.' And I found times that I could practice it when it was maybe not my family or friends or co-workers. It's a quality that's rarely disliked.

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.