Quotes About Deception

Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

We've never met before and I start telling you how much I love your favorite musicians, how I watch the same TV as you do, etc. You realize the reason I'm so perfect for you is because I spent the last two years going through your photo albums, reading your text messages and talking to your friends. Facebook is that stalker.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

The only thing I hate is when bad food is paraded as something great, and people are charging a lot for it.

The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.

'Donnie Brasco' was 85 percent on the money. The only thing that they slanted was my feelings for Lefty and Sonny', and this idea that I didn't want to go through with seeing them in jail. I was never swayed. There was no conflict.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will complain.

I personally think 'Power' is much more similar to 'The Sopranos' in that it deals with a character who is leading a double life and wants to become legitimate.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

I keep coming back to it, over and over - adultery and cheating. It's the most interesting problem in the theater. How else do you get Oedipus? That's the first cheating in the theater.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with anything.

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

De Palma's great theme, obsessively reiterated, is betrayal.

Secrets are very intriguing - I always think that's an interesting theme.

If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.

lying created bad karma and that often you were stuck with the lie. She said it was God showing his sense of humor. When