Being Truthful Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Rico Chiapparelli

  Long, People, Honest

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• 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. So I'm learning through it, and it's making me a better person, and it's making me a better artist, I think.

  Diane Guerrero

  Lying, Artist, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not so concerned with how many Rotten Tomatoes we have - although the good reviews are to be wished for, of course - but I have my hands full in the daily housekeeping of doing Maura right and being truthful to this experience.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Hands, Tomatoes, Rotten

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself.

  Benjamin Stone

  Truthful, Ifs, Vulnerability

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• Its funny because when I did feel like I came out and I just felt like I was being truthful to myself, (it was at) that point I became very successful. So you know, it took a true kind of facing that truth of myself and being honest, that was when the real kind of fame or whatever that kind of stuff happened for me.

  Margaret Cho

  Real, Successful, Stuff

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

  Judd Apatow

  People, Interesting, Trying

  "Judd Apatow: ‘Love’ was made for the Netflix binge, and ‘Girls’ should be weekly". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 17, 2016.

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

  Nick Damici

  Thinking, Truthful, Social

  Source: dailydead.com

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• German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.

  Paul Celan

  Beauty, Truth, Poetry

  Paul Celan, Rosemarie Waldrop (2003). “Collected Prose”, p.15, Psychology Press

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• I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

  Nikki Giovanni

  People, Best Wishes, Trying

  "It's No Secret - An interview with poet Nikki Giovanni". Interview with John Kryder, artvoice.com. April 3, 2008.

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• My overall responsibility is to be truthful. If people pay money to come and see me, looking for something other than that, then they've made a mistake.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Mistake, Responsibility, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

  Plato

  Hate, Character, Men

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• One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

  Emile Chartier

  Inspirational, Self Respect, World

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• The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Honesty, Taught, Helpful

  Sylvia Boorstein (1995). “It's easier than you think: the Buddhist way to happiness”, HarperOne

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• Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Jobs, Acting, Noses

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• Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Reality, Understanding

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• I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

  Benjamin Bratt

  School, Style, Training

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• I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.

  Robert Adams

  Support, Cameras, Records

  "Robert Adams: the photographer who roved the prairies for 45 years" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2014.

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• Being truthful is the new beautiful

  Suzy Kassem

  Beautiful, Truthful

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• Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful. Now, what is truth? There is no eternal truth. Every artist has to learn private truth though a painful private process. And that is what he has to convey.

  Ritwik Ghatak

  Beautiful, Art, Truthful

  "Cinema and I" by Ritwik Ghatak, (pp. 75), 1987.

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• I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but what you shouldn't be doing at any time is saying things that are untrue or making commitments that you have no intention of honouring.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Believe, Commitment, Truthful

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• 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.

  Eddie Izzard

  Drama, Lines, Comedy

  "Eddie Izzard Talks TREASURE ISLAND, Possibility of a Sequel, and MUNSTERS Reboot MOCKINGBIRD LANE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 1, 2012.

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Integrity, Purpose

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1140, Delphi Classics

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• Kids tell me all the time, "I don't know how you do it, but that's us in the book." That's the kind of response you want, and I can't sacrifice it for the sake of somebody worried about censorship. You have to find a way to be truthful and honest.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Kids, Sacrifice

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• A lot of the kind of comedy that I do comes out of real human moments. For them to work, they have to be truthful kinds of things that people in the audience can go, "Yes, I've experienced that myself!"

  Brian Regan

  Real, People, Comedy

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• In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as those who approve and confirm our discoveries.

  Max Muller

  Truth, Discovery, Order

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