Quotes About Truth

Whenever you write a true story, it's not going to go over 100 percent well with everybody.

For me to play any true person in a film based on a true story, I always want to make sure that it doesn't mock and it certainly doesn't trivialize the events that took place.

If a film is based on a true story and you don't use anyone's name, you can do what you like.

Every time you do a true story - and I've done a few - you have to look in the mirror and say, 'That's close enough. I'm comfortable with this.' You're always going to compress time; you're going to change the order of things. But I don't think you want to tell a big lie. You want to think that you're embracing the truth.

When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.

Often, when people don't do so well in a monologue at UCB, it's because they're racking their brain so hard to be funny that they're just not honest and don't just tell a true story, which is what we want.

Nothing is funnier than a true story told by a bitter old black man.

Because 'The Boy With The Topknot' is a true story there are so many specific details that are true, current, accurate and haven't been made up.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?

I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.

When I look back at my life and think about what really happened, my memory is obscured by the stories I've created out of those incidents. In stories, as reality melds with art, the result sometimes feels truer than real life.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

The simplest things are often the truest.

Somebody told me a long time ago that if everybody loves you, somebody's lying. It is the truest statement you could ever say to somebody.

With 'Luke Cage,' we all, as a collective wanted to tell the truest story that we could but, at the same time, also be very true to the comic book genre.

The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.

I was never a white guy pretending to be black. Not once, ever, did it occur to me that I was being phony or fraudulent or fake. Quite the opposite - I always believed I was living the truest form of my self.