Quotes About Deception

You can have characters that say one thing and do another, and in certain kinds of drama, you can't get away with that because the audience will become confused - or certainly, the commissioners will become confused and tell you to stop doing it!

When you look at C-3PO and Darth Vader and then look at the actors behind them, you can't really make the connection. It kills the magic.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

I've become very conscious of how easy it is for people to lie.

When you're surrounded by a world of constant lies, manipulation, and deceit, that dark energy is bound to seep into you eventually.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.

I've always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I'm doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I'm reading or running out to the movies. It's the surveillance I can't stand.

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Everything is susceptible to corruption of one sort or another - humanity is one big cheat - but it matters particularly with sport, which ceases to be itself the minute the outcome's rigged.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

Everyone knows that a movie is false. But if as filmmakers we give the audience too many reasons to lose the suspension of disbelief, I believe we're working our way down a hole.

We hesitate to call liars out in professional environments because we feel guilty for being suspicious. Calling someone a liar for no good reason is a frightening proposition for most.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.

Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

All cheaters shop for Swedish discount furniture.

The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.