Quotes About Truth

Like it or not, we are all liars. Thank goodness. Imagine going through life where everyone is completely honest: 'Those shoes... look like something out of an early Cyndi Lauper video.' 'Your daughter... looks like the spawn of Honey Boo Boo and Elmer Fudd.'

All is lost save honor.

I still had some honor... I still have some now.

I'm a guy who shakes your hand and will never let you down. I have a code of honor and I don't lie.

I believe I am an honorable man.

I believe Sandy Hook happened.

I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.

If I have the choice of saying one of two things to people, I'd like it to be the more honest and hopeful thing.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility.

You face the reality, whether it's hopeful or hopeless. What's your alternative? To lie down and die?

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

Whether it's theatre or TV or film, you're hoping you're going to bump into a writer that's got a bit of honour in him, that wants to tell a good story and is able to tell it well.

Becoming a reader grows our horizons, our appetite for the good, the true and the beautiful, and our empathy.

There aren't demons flying around with horns, people are demons.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

Truth is, there's never really been anything so horrible said about me that I haven't either thought of or said to myself.

A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.

It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or 'the good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.

The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.

You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.

I've found you don't have to make anything up. Reality is so complex and fascinating and horrible and beautiful.

I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying.

What's important to me about horror stories is to look at what's actually horrifying about humanity, instead of shining a flashlight on it and running away giggling.