Quotes About Truth

There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you.

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

I love to watch television in Babylon, especially the news because it's so full of corruption. I-man know there is so much corruption, there is bound to be an eruption!

That's the thing about film acting and television acting. You just release yourself and do what is true for the moment, and ignore everybody and everything and all the technical razzmatazz that goes on.

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

I try to keep it as honest and real as I can with television crews following me around.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

You amp things up and you speed things up, but technically, you can still be legally correct. This is the big beef I have with novels as well as television shows - it actually makes for a better show when you accommodate the truth.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, you'll get a Mercedes, you're lost.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.

I'm not two-faced, I'm honest, and I tell it the way it is. And I'm not good at hypocrisy, pretending to be someone I'm not.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

I believe in Father Frost. But not too deeply. But anyway, you know, I'm not one of those people who are able to tell the kids that Father Frost does not exist.

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

I'm a businessman who puts up his own money, so I don't have time to hear about emotion. I gotta get right to the point. I'm going to tell you the truth, I'm going to address the elephant in the room, and we'll all move forward.

When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.

It's kind of hard to tell your life story and state all facts and it still be sweet.

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.