What’s amazing about ‘White Heat’ is that, even for its time, it’s very truthful in the way it deals with violence.
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.
When I approach my music and my music videos, obviously all of the subjects and stories that I tell come from an honest, truthful place and the experiences that I’ve had.
I feel like there’s an obligation – this sounds terribly pretentious – if you’re an artist, to share your own experience in a way that’s truthful and honest: ‘This is what I have to share; this is my life.’
You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that’s depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.
Let us be truthful to ourselves and the public.
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.
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
You write about what you know. It makes everything easier, and also more truthful. In this case, I grew up in Oklahoma, and I grew up in the Cherokee Nation and I’m a member of the Cherokee Tribe. Oddly enough, I know a lot about robots and Oklahoma, and so that’s what comes out in my writing.
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.
I think it’s really important that the people who are going to make decisions for other people have fair, truthful and compassionate regard for all people, not just some people.
I don’t even subscribe to writer’s block being a truthful thing. I’ve had writer’s laziness quite often. But I think it’s all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I’ve always been ok at that.
What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human – the human who never looks more truthful or pitiful or benign; the curled-up, childlike dreaming soul who has for a few hours become an angel adrift.
There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.
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.
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.
I’m a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being.
The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic – and absolutely not truthful. Directing means allowing a great deal of collaboration and listening and having the ability to change your mind.
You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination – at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.
Acting’s not about nose jobs and liposuction. It’s about being truthful to what you’re doing.
Certain things can’t be approximated, so I’m always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful… Brutal language isn’t necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.
I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be 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.
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 like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real – as close to the skin as I can get it.
A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
A lot of the time, you’re supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you’re on stage making people laugh, you’re still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.
As a martial artist you have to be truthful about yourself so you can approach your training properly and get better.
A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.
So what that he had children with other women? He was always truthful, he always told me when another child was on the way. He would even bring the babies to me when they were born, and sometimes I would even bring them up myself.
You can’t be different for different’s sake, and this doesn’t always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it’s not truthful, don’t waste your time.
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
A film like ‘Whale Rider’ is equally truthful, perhaps more so, to the Maori experience; Maori people respond to ‘Whale Rider’ because it’s a world that they understand.
My biggest thing is telling a truthful story, something that is rooted in something and is very honest. If I read a script and you want me to take off my top, and it doesn’t serve a purpose, then I’m not going to do it.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
I think everyone likes direct. They might not like it in a specific moment, but… I’m always gonna push ’em to do more. That’s just me. I try to be truthful and honest and transparent, and if they don’t like it, then so be it. And that’s OK. I think they respect that and they know where I stand.
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
True atonement isn’t the periodic shaving of karmic stubble via confessional; it requires deep, truthful change. It means doing the hardest thing of all: not making the same stupid mistake again.
You have to be as truthful as you possibly can. That’s always been my philosophy.
I just like talking, and I’m really truthful. Sometimes things come out of my mouth, and I think, ‘Maybe I shouldn’t have said that,’ but at the end of the day, I am who I am! When I’m not acting, I’m going to be fully Hayley Hasselhoff, and that’s what you’re going to get. And I enjoy that.
My mother has always been truthful and honest about my work. I rely on her opinion as it will be unbiased.
One of the attractions of translating ‘Heroes’ is that it’s not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn’t have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It’s much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.
I’ve never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys – and the good guys always win, whereas in reality, most of the sheriffs were as bad as the gangsters they were after.
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.
When I’m doing a role the one thing I ask is ‘Is this believable? am I being truthful?’
Depending on who’s directing you, sometime it’s heightened or more naturalistic, but generally you’re trying to represent something truthful.
It’s amazing how much you will forgive if the behavior is truthful.
It’s interesting trying to make something as truthful as possible, but playing someone who is still alive is quite a weird thing.
I love being uncomfortable. I love feeling very revealed. And when I watch a piece of work that I’ve done, I’m actually looking for that. How naked is this character? How truthful is this character? If it’s truthful, there’s automatically a separation.
I have never joined the Facebook world because, to be truthful, social media scares me to death. It is kind of crazy how huge that world is, so I have never joined Facebook, but I do have Instagram and Twitter.
The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me.
I’m very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.
Well, I believe that life is very complicated. And in a way, the only way you can show life in a truthful way is to show how complicated it is as an individual, but also your relation between a complicated life and the complications you have inside you.
A nice person is a ‘yes’ person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn’t afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.
