Quotes About Truth

People tend to think that metabolism is genetically predetermined. That you're either cursed or you're blessed. And that's not true.

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

For my part, as a filmmaker, I've never been a fly-on-the-wall documentarian. I have no commitment to that method. I believe it's a lie.

Films like 'I, Tonya' and 'Richard Jewell' show a moment in time that then spurned a whole methodology of 24 news cycle, in which it became more important to fill time and to make money, than to tell the truth.

Languages are true analytical methods.

Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.

I don't think most guys can handle a mic even close to what I do if I'm honest and I say that with no ego, that's the honest truth. I know what I do and I'm self aware.

Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.

I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.

We are the ones out there competing, and yet we read articles and listen to people making accusations about Jamaica, and there's nobody there to take a microphone, be a big person and say, 'What you're saying is wrong, and it's a lie.'

When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

All I can say is I am a footballer, and if a club like Milan are interested in me, then I cannot lie to you: I am happy, because it is Milan.

I've got enough miles under my belt to know that whatever you envision in your mind, even if it comes true, will only keep a shape in the most general way.

What does Macbeth want? What does Shakespeare want? What does Othello want? What does James want? What does Arthur Miller want when he wrote? Those things you incorporate and create in the character, and then you step back and you create it. It always must begin with the point of truth within yourself.

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.

Of course money is important. Very important. Important to everybody. If I said it wasn't, I'd be lying. Especially because it's not like I've made hundreds of millions of dollars in my career.

I think people tend to forget that as celebrities we are still human. We have the same emotions - we cry, we have fun, we laugh, we get sad, and we get hurt. When something is written about you, which millions of people are reading, and it is not true, imagine how hurtful it can be.

I have said what millions of people think and find. It is a travesty that I have to defend myself in court for this.

What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.