Truthful Quotes

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful.

To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful!

Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.

I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

I can be glib and truthful all at once.

The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.

In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.

I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.