The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
I always come from truth.
Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.
To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.
Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.
Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.
I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.
When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.
Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
News isn't even the truth on television.
