Quotes About Truth

That image of a lawyer standing up in a criminal case and doing the right thing always stuck with me. I love the idea of building cases and really going after bad guys.

My favorite line to Phil is, 'You can say the right thing on TV, but why can't you do it in real life?'

The secret of success is sincerity.

We've discovered the secret of life.

I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth.

At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

I was the classic killer. I always played an angry man. I think it was because I used to really be like that - I was hostile. And because I had a good sense of theatrical truth, I used my anger and rebelliousness and just went with it. Anger was just a part of me.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple.

India has been a very accepting culture. We pride ourselves on that. That is a global truth. In fact, it forms a major theme in my books.

If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.

The original theme of 'Beauty and the Beast' is don't judge a book by its cover. Love what's inside.

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.

Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

The whole question of 'What is truth?' seemed to be the theme of Trump's presidency.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. —Coco Chanel

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart—it's all a man has. —Hubert Humphrey

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

This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. —William Shakespeare

way we don't tell the most important people in our lives the most important things. It was how men tended