Quotes About Deception

I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

Cheaters are people who have a lot of stuff to work out, and they're working it out on your time and with your heart.

A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just think, "Oh ...".

Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added.

I'm tired of good people getting ripped off by diet products that don't work!

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.

The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

Making fake promises while wearing a fancy dress... that isn't enough. Promises take more work than that.

Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries." I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the Lord's work and all.

If I say things like I'm going to erase someone's Social Security number, we all know I clearly don't work at the Social Security office.

I do think the strategy of Trump, and now the Republican Party, is to eviscerate the idea of objective truth.

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

I have seen streets where someone said it's all fine, and then it was full of land mines.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

We'd boil this whisky because we thought that would make it stronger. So we thought we were getting drunk, but in fact there'd be no alcohol left in it.

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.