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I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.
Loyalty consists of many things, including being truthful with our friends. When you really disagree, you have to say so.
In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.
I would never have told my father a lie. We were brought up to be very truthful. I would never lie today. It's impossible.
You had to make everything much more truthful for the camera. With the stage it's a given that it's going to be theatrical.
If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.
There are certain roles - say, terrorist roles - that if I don't feel like it's something truthful, I'm not going to do it.
The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.
I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.
That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.
To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.
and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.
Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.
The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.
The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you can get away with it.
I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.
As a member of Congress, I strongly believe I have a responsibility to be truthful, even if that means delivering difficult news.
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
It's interesting trying to make something as truthful as possible, but playing someone who is still alive is quite a weird thing.
I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.
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.
A good content always allows me to reach the depth of the characters, and thus, the performance looks more relatable and truthful.
Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.
You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.
Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion.
Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.
I wrote 'Healthy Sick,' from our first LP, when I was 19. I'll happily play it till I'm 91 because it always feels good and truthful.
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
I like being at that place where you can either fall or stand. That's where I think you really have a shot at doing something truthful.
See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends on him.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.
To be truthful, when I'd be on the bus when I was a little kid, like fourth, fifth grade, we'd always be free-styling and playing around.
I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.
I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful.
If you get to participate with a group of artists and make something that's really truthful, that's about the highest you can go, in my opinion.
I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
It's truthful - every single song is an extension of me and a truthful piece of inspiration from my past or something I'm currently going through.
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.
To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.
I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience unless you know your truth, and you're not living a lie.
It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.
Everybody should read 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and truthful.
I bought a crystal ball, and I wanted to use it, but I didn't know how, and I wouldn't use it until I developed a technique to use it that was truthful.
When you raise your voice in song to express what's going on deep inside of you, I think people just react to that because it's so truthful. It's so raw.