Quotes About Truth

Life's all about perceptions.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

People read things on Google, and they have these perceptions, these misconceived perceptions of who you are. At times that hurts, because they really don't know who I am.

Our absolutes should always be hypothesis. They should never be confirmed as fact because everything that we construct through our perceptions, through our memories, is so corruptible. The skills that I have can really display that.

Nobody has a perfect anything. We don't have perfect lives. We're not perfect beings.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Not everything can be perfect.

No-one has a perfect life. You put a perfect life forward, but no-one has a perfect life.

We're all flawed people at the end of the day; I don't know any perfect people.

I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

With love, you don't mislead or play around, so if you're not perfectly clear, just be honest about it.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.

I'm committed to an honest expression, not necessarily a performance.

When you see my performances, even people that you might have known, like Nicky Barnes in 'American Gangster,' you have to get over the fact that I look like Cuba Gooding, Jr. But once you find truth in the performance, if I'm doing my job right, you believe everything.

As a performer, the thing you want the most is to be your authentic self.

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

What's weird is that anybody can write anything, and once it goes online, it's permanent. My very first biography on IMDb, which was written by a manager I had at the time, was not true.