Be Truthful Quotes

It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.

The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.

I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.

The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.

In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful.

You think that when you love somebody you have to totally follow him or her. No, that's not love. When you love somebody, you have to be totally truthful with that person.

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

It was only when he was back in bed that it struck Harry that Dumbledore might not have been quite truthful. But then, it had been a quite personal question.

I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity.

What I like about stand-up is, it's truthful. I'm not up there trying to get laid or look cool. I'm up there because I really love it, and it makes people happier.

I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.

I just need to make sure I don't get in my own way of a truthful and organic moment. Regardless of the research involved, at the end of the day, I have to show up, breathe, and listen.

We're no longer dealing in the world of the real in a truthful way. We're interacting with each other in shiny homepages. I don't think that makes for honest communication.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

I'm just trying to be truthful and collaborate with people who have interesting things to say.

[John] Hughes really wanted it to sound authentic. He was a real collaborator. He encouraged us to bring to the material things we thought were maybe more truthful.

If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.

I'm a vegan. It makes me feel really good and bright.

I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.

It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.

I think people respond to truthful, simple narrative, and the more you try to dress it up to try and do something else, the harder it is for people to relate to.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.

It takes work to plot a course that is both thrilling and truthful, but it's worth it.

I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics.

Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

In this way, Allah will love the pious person because He, the Most Exalted, loves those who are pious, truthful, charitable, devout, and are sincere to Him and to His Prophet.

One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say

I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

I don't think social commentary should be planned, you just have to be truthful.

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

Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has to be believable and honest.

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

Being truthful - that's what I admire the most in people. That's about it. As long as people are honest. Honest to themselves as well - more than anything else.

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

As a director I always look at someone's eyes. How truthful are they? Will this person take me on this journey?

First of all, she Hillary Clinton is going to raise taxes on the middle class. I actually think that's the only truthful thing she's said in about three weeks.

A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.