Quotes About Deception

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

The funny thing with Ophelia is that I remembered her being this really cool, awesome female character when I read 'Hamlet' in high school, and when I went back and read it, no, she's not.

I remembered a long time ago when 'A League of Their Own' came out, and they had the opening sequence with an older Geena Davis. We all just thought it was amazing, but you find out it actually wasn't Geena Davis; it wasn't makeup. It was basically finding an actress that looked like her, and then Geena just dubbed her voice.

It's always good to remind yourself of how awful people can be, even when they seem to be projecting kindness.

Politics remind me a lot of 'RuPaul's Drag Race.' It's real but it isn't.

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

Some have tried to use my work for politics, using inaccurate or out-of-context information that, repeated enough, becomes truth to some even though it is not.

I knew right then and there, it was the beginning of the end for Milli Vanilli. When my voice got stuck in the computer, and it just kept repeating and repeating, I panicked. I didn't know what to do. I just ran off the stage.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

I got really bad grades, so I'd hide my report card from my dad. My mom was in on it, too, because she knew he'd be furious. I probably would've gone to boot camp. Seriously.

I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.

If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth.

We unwittingly judge products by their boxes, books by their covers, and even corporation's annual reports by their nice glossy finish.

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

It's really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it's a representative and it's not really them.

One point about understanding Donald Trump is that he is always representing something which has only a casual connection to what he actually is.

People don't realize that they're being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there.

My first husband was a serial cheater.