Quotes About Deception

I feel like, especially in Hollywood, you meet people with ulterior motives, who are trying to get something from you.

What I try to do often when I'm acting and what I like when I'm seeing good acting is how authentic it is. How true is this to what I know of the world that's been created for me? The ultimate test for me is, like, if I heard a clip of it on the radio, I'd like the audience not to know if I'm acting.

There is a heap of evidence to show Michael Avenatti is a liar and yet he was treated as the ultimate arbitrator of truth. How embarrassing.

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.

Any false religion ultimately is a deception of Satan, to try and keep people from the only way to Heaven, which is through faith in Jesus Christ.

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

I do think deception... There's something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ultimately, it's a remarkably honest profession, when you think about it. If you violate that code, and you say you're not using camera tricks, and then you do, I actually think that's a kind of serious moral issue.

You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.

I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.

It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.