Top 292 Frankly Quotes

In popular culture, when women compete, it’s usually over a man, and it’s usually very nasty. And that is just frankly not my experience. That’s just some kind of popular mythology, it feels like. I find it insulting.

This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it’s about our families, it is about our country, and frankly, ladies and gentlemen, it is about the world. We’ve got to leave here and march, and make sure Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are president and vice president of the United States.

Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.

The biggest change we have to tackle that’s out there is that we’re digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that’s something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You’re giving a lot of debt to them and you can’t keep doing it. It’s not helping anybody.

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can’t be taught. Frankly, I don’t understand this point of view.

Sonic Youth could never really get it together acoustically – quite frankly, it wasn’t something we were really that interested in.

Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

Hillary Clinton, because she’s the Democrats’ presumptive 2016 front-runner, has become the target du jour. Frankly, I don’t know how public figures get through it.

Frankly, there are better things for me to invest in than these hotels. Stewards are really needed for these kind of properties – instead of investors.

Parents of recovered children, and I’ve met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature’s course. We all know better, and frankly we’re too busy helping other parents to really care.

I’m stunned at some of the stuff Johnny Miller comes out with sometimes. He is very harsh and frankly I find some of the stuff he sees very disrespectful.

Quite frankly, the financial community has to improve its image. The financial community has to be much more transparent than it is.

Frankly, ‘Bride Wars’ got made because movies with women need to be about weddings and love.

I frankly couldn’t imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character.

Television became defensible – and, frankly, worshipped – because the shows started to be so carefully structured, so attentive to language, and so visually interesting that they suddenly caught people’s eye.

Part of what dressing for yourself means requires your understanding that the scrutiny of others is frankly irrelevant.

Frankly, I’ve had it with this show-business stuff. But I love ‘Gunsmoke’ and I love the guys I work with.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

You should always think about the mainstream audience first and foremost, because frankly they are the people who are going to get the show recommissioned. There are not enough genre fans to support shows.

Frankly, I guess, I don’t really understand why people, why so many people, are so risk averse. You know, there’s always ways to wiggle your way out of any situation if you’re motivated enough.

My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I’ve been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman – and he’s too young for me though, frankly.

You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn’t figure largely in my world view.

The only pressure I feel is how I can contribute to help my team win the match. Of course, there is always the pressure to score, but then doesn’t it eventually help your team win? Frankly, I don’t let these things affect me.

Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.

Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You’re not allowed to speak your mind unless you’re black, or unless you’re a terrorist, or unless you’re an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.

I’m aggressive, quite frankly, because Staten Island gets screwed all the time. And if I’m not aggressive, then I won’t be successful. That’s not being a bad boy. That’s doing my job.

I would prefer to get more sleep, quite frankly, because I think I would be more productive at everything.

Quite frankly, Oklahomans are pretty smart. They know how to choose candidates.

I don’t think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

I suppose the best advice I ever got, frankly the advice that changed my life, came from my uncle who told me to go to drama school and study acting instead of taking a job, because he said the job would always be there.

I think ‘West Side Story’ is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicals ever put onscreen – or stage, for that matter. I, frankly, like Zeffirelli’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ very much, too. I grew up with that… I loved it. I loved the score; I loved the acting.

Sometimes you have to see the thing to know that it exists. Maybe there’s a queer person in a town, but they don’t feel comfortable or safe coming out, frankly, and the only representation they feel that they have or connection they have is on television or in a movie, and that’s really powerful.

Frankly, one of the problems we have in the country is we’re not forming enough families. And that is hurting our economic work, and it’s hurting our economic projections, because the best place for a child is within a strong family unit.

Lita was, quite frankly, a trailblazer. She was the first woman to break down barriers by being different from other women in WWE. She didn’t just break them down: she flew over them, put them through tables, and downright destroyed them.

Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country’s best interests, you know?

I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I’d love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, ‘Make America great again.’

Frankly, I’m a drummer; and when I wanted to let off steam, I would just go and beat the hell out of my drums.

What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father’s brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes.

People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.

The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 – you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated guys – the Germans and Japan – were out. The occupied countries had no voice. That was fine in ’45, but today, Germany rules Europe, frankly. They are driving Europe but have no voice.

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there’s a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.

I mean, frankly, I’m not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I’m speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don’t go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

If I’m being honest, I think I’d be good at television; I just don’t know if I am interested, because you are kind of geographically responsible to a location, and frankly I don’t know if I retired from tennis so that I could sit around tennis tournaments 12 hours a day.

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they’ve got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we’re going to bomb them into the stone age.

I write music that sounds complex but isn’t. I frankly never think in terms of theory.

Going for the Rhodes, it really put a label on me that was hard to shake, and frankly I don’t think that I did shake it.

Frankly, people buying a home to let should not be squeezing out families who can’t afford a home to buy.

I can’t frankly see much difference in the film industry at all. The only difference might be that they don’t take as much time as they used to. For example, they’ll do in one day what we used to take a week to do.

How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.