Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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.
Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.
We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.
No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.
