In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.
When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.
I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.
I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.
All you need is one person in a group to be honest, and then slowly, very slowly, everyone else starts telling the truth. That's why our lecturers must be former members of Weight Watchers. They must have lost weight our way.
You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.
Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything. If he's telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you?
I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.
The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.
You're under tremendous pressure, and everyone needs you to be perfect all the time, and that often creates a perverse incentive to not tell the truth. Please remember - when you get caught not telling the truth, it's over.
Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins.
There's a part in a woman's soul, God has given it to every woman, and it's the part where you know whether he's telling the truth or not. Women see red flags.
