Quotes About Truth

I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.

And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.

We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.

I think if I had to choose another profession, I'd like to be a judge because I'm very capable of determining what's right and what's not.

Journalists run many risks. It comes with the profession.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

You know, people make up a lot of different stories about a lot of different things.

There are all different types of people out there who are going to say all kinds of things, online and in real life. The important thing is to know which ones to listen to.

You meet lots of people in your life, and sometimes you think that people are a certain way, and then they reveal themselves to be a different way.

I really think truth comes from the body. When you're running for your life, you breathe differently; you talk differently.

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.

Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.

Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

I say things directly and to the point because I don't know anything else.

A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.

The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.

The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.

The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.

Often I've met people who are famous, and as you get to know them, they disappoint you.

We can all take criticism as long as it's constructive. When it's complete lies, that's when it's disappointing.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.