Quotes About Truth

When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.

Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

I think the older you get, the more 'let's cut to the chase' you get, 'let's quit quibbling about this, let's tell it like it is.'

The only thing as a kid that really mattered to me was that I wouldn't quit. When I say 'quit,' I mean you wake up, you go to the piano, you go to whatever instrument, and you work at learning how to tell the truth.

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

One thing he always said, and I love this quote and I really believe it, my ex said, 'You don't truly know a person until they don't get what they want. That's when they show you who they are.' You wouldn't think that the person you were married to and were with for 10 years and taught you the quote would be the best number one example to prove it.

I have never seen any such quote anyplace, anywhere.

I don't talk, I quote. I can't help it. It's better to be quotable than honest.

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

I need to know everything inside quote marks is true.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

I figure no matter what interview I do, the real good 'journalists' are going to find the completely irrelevant quotes that will drum up some controversy and stick it on their page to get some clicks and completely miss the real context of what the interview is about. That's what we do nowadays and call it 'journalism.'

A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction.

There's truth in comedy, and that resonates with people of all races.

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

That became the Netflix culture: radical honesty.

I'm not so radical about Twitter, but I think it's sometimes dangerous if you think that Twitter is real life.

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.