Quotes About Interpretation

The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.

Read between the lines, folks, 'cause I'm here to tell you you're not getting the straight story. Ever. You're getting variations of the truth, if you're lucky.

It is amazing how the truth is just out there or what somebody's actually said, and you have your little knee-jerk reactions.

One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

Your truth really can't be twisted. It is what it is. That doesn't mean that a person can't develop and change and reinterpret their life.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.

We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.