The truth is I made a few good movies in the '50s, then went into freefall.
I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
If you don't tell the whole truth about yourself, life is a ridiculous exercise.
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.
The truth is we're all searching. We're all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I'm by no means someone to follow.
The truth is, we were sick of, every time we finished a movie, having to start all over again from nothing, going to a studio, pitching an idea, setting up a new office.
We need to tell the American public the truth. We need to let them know they're not the only ones struggling.
To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.
For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.
Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that's been created in America has been pretty much improvised... Whether it's hillbilly or rock n' roll for blues, it's basically jazz music... It's basically about another way of hearing what comes out of America.
I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
The truth is I'm fairly relaxed.
A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
The truth is, even those who think Dreams only happen to someone else carry a Dream hidden deep in their heart, just hoping it can come true.
Anna Deavere Smith's new one-woman show bills itself as being about health care, but the truth is that 'Let Me Down Easy' is mostly about the grimmer subject of death and dying.
To insist that belief in the Bible demands belief in a young Earth is to put a stumbling block in the path of many nonbelievers. It raises the question of why a God who is committed to revealing truth would make the universe and Earth measure to be old if, in fact, they are not.
Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.
The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.
Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.
If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.
Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.
Truth is an illusory notion.
In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.
There's truth in comedy, and that resonates with people of all races.
My audience expects cold, hard truth. They don't expect me to dance around it. They expect me to say it the way they think it. That's part of my brand. If I don't do that, then my audience goes, 'What's up? Is he sick or something? What's wrong with him?' The entity has a brand.
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.
No matter what you go through, if it's the truth, 9 times out of 10, somebody else has been through the same thing or is currently going through the same thing.
The truth is that I don't work any harder than anyone else in the world. I don't work 18-hour days. I don't stay up until 4 in the morning trying to finish a line.
I can never lie to my partner. Even if the truth is harsh, I'll break it to my partner but won't lie.
The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.
