Mark Mirabello Quotes

Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

The truth usually has a slightly ugly look.

The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.

I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity.

It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Too much truth is uncouth.

The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society - warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.

There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.

You’re going to get what I think is the truth, and it’s going to be raw.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

For the truth is a terrible thing.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

Geese are but Geese tho' we may think 'em Swans; and Truth will be Truth tho' it sometimes prove mortifying and distasteful.

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.