A Quote by Ellen DeGeneres

I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest. — © Ellen DeGeneres
I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest.
We need to make sure that we have an honest, honest conversation and that we engage honest practices around how racism operates in this country. It's not just about people being mean to each other.
Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.
When an acting teacher tells a student 'that wasn't honest work' or 'that didn't seem real,' what does this mean? In life, we are rarely 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. And characters in plays are almost never 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. What exactly do teachers even mean by these words? A more useful question is: What is the story the actor was telling in their work? An actor is always telling a story. We all are telling stories, all the time. Story: that is what it is all about.
Giving honest and well-intended feedback is often confused with being mean. It's not mean; it's nice.
I pride myself on being a jerk, because I'm brutally honest all the time.
Be honest, be brutally honest, and if you want something go out there and get it.
We like people who are honest. Honest in argument, honest with clients, honest with suppliers, honest with the company - and above all, honest with consumers.
Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
My parents are really honest when they watch something. My nan is brutally honest. She'll tell me, 'Oh, you looked awful in that scene,' and I'm like, 'Well, I was giving birth at the time, so it probably worked with the character, Nan.'
I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.
I think men under pressure - I mean, that's what brings out the worst and the best of us. I like to explore that quite a bit in my characters because I don't see a lot of it on the screen that moved me like the films that I grew up with - that are honest, at least, about honest emotions and honest heroism.
I can be brutally honest, which can be hard on others, but I'm a good friend.
Johnny Miller is a very honest guy. That may have been to his detriment sometimes. On television, he's too honest. We talk about it a lot. Do you really need to be that honest? You know what I mean? But he's a good man. He's a good family man. He's got good values, and we're delighted to have him as our honoree.
If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.
I haven't done years of diversity training, so sometimes I say things which are probably tactless, and I don't mean to, to be honest, I don't mean to do that.
My problem is being brutally honest. People don't like that.
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