Quotes About Truth

I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.

The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.

We must get all the facts on the table, and then determine where we go.

No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.

Most of the time, you think the problem is not as big as it is - because it says something negative about you or your company or your leadership. Face the reality: The facts are not as you want them to be.

To do a movie about someone who actually lived gives you two responsibilities. You have to try to be accurate to the facts of what he did and what he was like as a character. Then, at the same time, you have a responsibility to make a movie that entertains and can get an audience.

Look at the facts as they truly are, not as you want them to be.

I'm a 'just the facts, ma'am' kind of guy.

It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.

Don't worry about the little factual details. Get to the heart of it.

If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, that's when you fail.

The members of the National Clandestine Service of the CIA are called the collectors of last resort. They are tasked to seek the truth when all other avenues of intelligence collection have failed.

If you agree with everything I have said, then I have failed.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?

There is no fairness out there. There is no balance in the media.

God in fact does not change: he is faithful to himself.

Drag is something real. We're so fake that something real actually comes through.

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

It'll be nice not to have to use my fake IDs anymore.

Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.

I hate the expression, 'I'm not fake.'

You can fake a lot of stuff, but you can't fake if the story isn't there and if the writing isn't good.

Don't believe the fake media.