Truthful Quotes

To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.

There’s only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn’t sing his song. Because for me, it wasn’t a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person’s experience.

Your average director will be content with something that comes across as truthful, but we know, as fellow actors, that that’s not great for a performer. They have to feel that what they’re conveying is honest.

As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character’s context.

I’m okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it’s fabricated and ill-motived, it’s not good.

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.

Sometimes, in a fictional story, you can be more honest and truthful, actually. As a journalist, you’re a prisoner of the data, in effect. You have to tell the story with evidence you can verify.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

My main message is to preach God’s word, pure and truthful. But also make it swaggalicious.

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.

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

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.

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character’s mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.

I love rap, and part of hip-hop culture is being excessive and absurd, and I can’t be excessive and absurd without sounding corny. So I have to do it in a very truthful, weird way.

Kids are truthful by nature.

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.

When I did ‘Sex and the City,’ it was like, ‘Let’s do a comedy where the humor is not coming from innuendo but from the a truthful place. This is a show where we’re going to be able to say and do what we want.’

You have to be as truthful as you possibly can. That’s always been my philosophy.

Let us be truthful to ourselves and the public.

It’s so much easier to be truthful. Maybe I’m just too lazy to lie.

My job is not to frighten children, but sometimes addressing fears and concerns within the safe boundaries of a picture book can fill me with an awesome responsibility to be as truthful and transparent as possible.

I’ve always loved Victorian melodrama. And I’ve always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it’s truthful and honest. I like what the theater can provide in energy and bombast – I enjoy it when it’s large, and by that I don’t mean in size, I mean in emotions. Shakespeare did that.

If we’re in a scene together, I want to give you something that allows your performance to be truthful. In football, if you’re opposite me, I want to destroy you, take your head off. I’m still reading body language, still reacting, still trusting my instincts – same as football – but it’s different now.

You must tell the truth. You must be truthful to yourself and the values of the game that got you there.

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 has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.

It’s been a huge honor to collaborate and create new theatre with new writers and to create theatre that will last after my lifetime. It’s been in the most truthful way possible. It’s my favorite thing to do.

I think there’s a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go… The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful.

When people listen to artists, and you turn on the radio, it’s a lot of gimmicks. And that’s real. So I take it like there’s nobody keeping it honest and truthful no more, especially as far as young teenagers and females.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

I think it’s unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

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.

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.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

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.

You tell that to people until you are blue in the face and they struggle to believe it, but I am being totally truthful when I say that all that matters to me is Wales winning.

As a member of Congress, I strongly believe I have a responsibility to be truthful, even if that means delivering difficult news.

If I were to do some outlandish role, I always made sure I’d be on Johnny Carson to show that I wasn’t that person that I played. I’d be myself. And so people got to know me, I think, and I think they know that I’m honest and truthful and real.

In the split-second before someone prepares to answer a question, he will consciously or subconsciously evaluate what the best possible answer might be. For a truthful person, the best possible answer might omit some information. It might have a few extraneous details. But it will still offer the information requested.

I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

It’s interesting trying to make something as truthful as possible, but playing someone who is still alive is quite a weird thing.

The NFL goes to great lengths to protect what it calls ‘the integrity of the game.’ The same should be said for us as individuals. Integrity, the truthful interaction of word and deed, not only creates leaders in the locker room who are worthy of being followed; it is also vital for success at home.

When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not ‘truthful’ enough, and I must begin again. I have to.

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.

There is a sense in which we have – like, I go in to teach a class; I may be somewhat different than I would be talking to you, although it’s related because it’s public. I’m very different with my roommate or my lover or my cats. But I don’t know if that means you’re acting, really, if you’re being truthful.

My mother has always been truthful and honest about my work. I rely on her opinion as it will be unbiased.

The fact of the matter is I always have a really high sense of responsibility to the reader, whether it’s a few readers that I get or a lot of readers, which I was lucky enough to get with ‘Olive.’ I feel responsible to them, to deliver something as truthful and straight as I can.

However much people want to politicize every movement of a controversial woman in life or on the screen, we just have to keep being personal and truthful, or we will explode.

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.

Love every role to be new, and I always like to bring a freshness to every character I play, but that comes down to the script. So, it’s important that it’s a good script with good, truthful characters and truthful subjects.

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, ‘What do you think?’ I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I’m a messenger.

Life ain’t a drama. And life isn’t just a comedy. Life is sometimes horrifying. Life is science-fiction. There are all elements and faculties that we navigate, so I just expect a script to reflect that. As long as it’s truthful. I think genre-bending is just being honest.

You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that’s depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

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.

The cinema is a very truthful medium because the camera doesn’t let you get away with anything. On stage, you can even loaf a little, if you’re so inclined.

To start telling people that you’re beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it – like this is truthful!

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.

Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.

As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don’t try, you won’t find out if you get them or not.

In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you’re not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.

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.’

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

I love big, bold, truthful theater – the tradition of Victorian theater.

I do think I’m country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. In my opinion, country music, the sound of country, has always evolved. But the one thing that has not changed is the story element. And I think country songs are truthful songs about life written by country people.

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren’t focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports – or in business.

The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it’s not funny. You can succeed in doing all the things you’re supposed to do – be truthful to scene – and if it’s not funny, I’m telling you that no one’s gonna care.

I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.

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.

I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You’ve got to be truthful. I don’t think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you’ve got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

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.

I think it’s fair to ask how truthful a film is as opposed to how factual it is.

I was nominated 13 times during my 15-week stay in ‘Bigg Boss’ but they couldn’t get me out. That is because I was truthful and entertained the audience with my good sense of humour.

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

Everybody has their thing that they’re truthful about. My thing is just a love of God… so that’s what I’m going to do.

I don’t ever want to work on something unless I feel really passionate about it and know I can give everything to it; otherwise it’s not truthful and I hate that.

As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I’m trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.

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.

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.

When I’m doing a role the one thing I ask is ‘Is this believable? am I being truthful?’

I think any actor should be aware of where they’re starting to stretch into what’s not truthful.

My father never really encouraged me or even took an interest after I walked away from the family business. No one did except my mother and my grandfather. To be truthful, I cannot remember one meaningful conversation I had with my father.

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.

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for ‘integrity’ in the dictionary. ‘Truthful’ doesn’t really cover it, or ‘genuine.’ It should be like ‘integritus.’

When I’m rapping, like, a turn up song, I’m thinking about what the people want to hear; this is what they’re going to like. When I’m singing, I’m, like, telling my story. I’m not worried if people like it; I’m just trying to be truthful, you know what I’m saying? I’m just talking about something that happened to me.

Everyone working on ‘Tyrant’ wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of way. For the actors, we have to try and make these stories as truthful and compelling as possible.

From last century’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’ to this century’s ‘Gods and Generals,’ Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America’s very origins.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

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 are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.

’50/50′ is a comedy. I shouldn’t say it’s a buddy comedy because it’s not farcical, and it’s based on a true story, but it’s viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour.

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.

If you’re truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth.

I think it’s part of how people relate to Fleetwood Mac. In many ways, we’ve been too open and too truthful about stuff that is really none of anyone’s business. I think we were quite naive in the way we related a lot of that truth to people other than ourselves.

You can’t have experiments that aren’t truthful. You can’t lie about equations. Shouldn’t be lying in football. That’s a message that we should be teaching.

The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.

I’m finding all over America that people are sick and tired of the tweedle-dee dees and the tweedle-dee dums who constantly flip-flap from one side to another. People are interested in having candidates that are truthful.

Of course, working with Halle Berry is fantastic. Every day, you’re looking at a performance that you would be prepared to pay to watch. She’s truly great and truthful, and it’s a joy.

See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends on him.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush’s war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

Singing and being truthful to a song… I’ve developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that’s all I’ve been doing for the last 25 years.

I think there are a lot of people who are afraid to be who they are, and if I have to sacrifice a little bit of fame and a little bit of success because I’m being 100 percent truthful with who I am, hopefully that will create a paved way for someone else.

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.

Actually, Nicole Holofcener’s movies have always felt really right to me. ‘Lovely & Amazing’ is a movie about women’s bodies that I feel is so truthful and painful and real.

The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium.

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that’s durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.

I’m trying to be truthful.

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.

I prize something that feels authentic. It’s an undefinable thing, but I know it when I see it, and I think audiences do, too. One of the reasons why ‘Bloody Sunday’ and ‘United 93’ work is because they felt real, felt truthful.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

In my world, I like everything stripped down, something that’s really truthful.

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.

In Shakespeare’s world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter – in the eye.

What’s amazing about ‘White Heat’ is that, even for its time, it’s very truthful in the way it deals with violence.

I want to be unique and original and truthful.

Hopefully, by the time I do a project, I already have a true understanding and love of what I’m about to do because if I don’t, I’m not going to work on that project. I really want to have those connections so I can be truthful to the emotional aspect of what I have to deliver for the story.

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.

To be honest, I’m not even thinking about America. If I was to start thinking about the enormity of ‘Downton’ and the size of the project, then I wouldn’t be able to be very truthful to the work. I would start to watch myself too much. I’m not even thinking about it. Who knows what will happen.

I don’t like to know exactly what I’m going to do in a scene, because the most interesting moments as an audience member are moments of truthful spontaneity.

Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point – that, for me, is always about – and always will be as long as I do this – refining and refining and refining and refining the truth… constantly being as truthful and honest and raw and real as you can be.

Democracy relies on free speech. Yes, say anything you want, but it relies even more on the speech being truthful. It is the truth, after all, that sets us free.

It’s important to be honest and truthful with your constituents. At the end of the day, we represent them.

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.

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.

Everyone knows who I am; everyone respects me as a shooter, as an operator, as a soldier… I’m always truthful, I’m always honest, and I’m always trying to do the right thing.

What I’ve found – and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it – is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It’s scary to be truthful, and it’s scary to reveal yourself, and I’m very attracted to doing things that scare me.

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.

Depending on who’s directing you, sometime it’s heightened or more naturalistic, but generally you’re trying to represent something truthful.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‘Here I am. This is me.’ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn’t matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.

You have to be truthful and believable in whatever you do and that is the founding principle of acting.

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.

Even if you know that what you’ll say will hurt a woman’s feelings, I’ve learned that it’s better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about.

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.

Since Jesus is the truth, if you follow him, you must be truthful, no matter what the personal cost.

I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity.

I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.

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 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.

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 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.

Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion.

For me, it’s very important that shows about gay people are messy and complicated and are truthful about what we do.

You have these relationships with people that you care about, but I also try to stick to my job as filmmaker and be fair and truthful about what I saw and my experience of the people, hopefully informed by a deep understanding of them.

I mean, sometimes… a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don’t deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don’t even notice that that’s the thing.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what’s painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

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.

The ‘Vanity Fair’ article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.

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.

Today we live in a world now where it is easy to confuse truth and popularity. And you can use money to amplify whatever you believe and get people to believe what is popular is now truthful. And what is not popular may not be truthful.

I had the question asked of me before, ‘What do you like better: singing or playing guitar?’ If I’m gonna be totally truthful, if that microphone’s in my hand, I’m loving it. When the guitar’s in my hand, I’m a little nervous, but I’m still loving it.

Don’t be part of the spectacle; be truthful about what you care about and speak from the heart.

People hear that and say I’m being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I’m doing and what I’m doing is channeling.

If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we’re going to be truthful.

We try to be driven by what’s a good story, what’s truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

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.

It’s not the actor’s job to be interesting; that’s the script’s job. It’s our job to be truthful and brave.

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work’s conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.

I don’t believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don’t think that if it was grainy and full of handheld material, it would be any more 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.

It’s important for an actor to feel like they’re really being watched and to receive feedback and encouragement about the aspects of what they’re doing that feels truthful – and also to raise awareness when they might be resorting to habits and tricks, which every actor has.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn’t mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.

Being truthful is a necessity because when I’m not being truthful it takes a toll on me. I don’t have any room for it in my life. I don’t have an across-the-board opinion on honesty in relationships. But for me, personally, it’s paramount.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

I can be glib and truthful all at once.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

To be truthful, not much ‘engineering’ goes into the ShamWow!

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.

Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We’ve always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that’s our story.

That’s always fun to play: the person who can be truthful and blunt, and people take it because that’s who she is.

As a martial artist you have to be truthful about yourself so you can approach your training properly and get better.

I had gone to acting school for years. It was the kind of thing I had studied to do. I had worked with good coaches and trained to do this my whole life: to be a realistic actress capable of doing truthful work.

I think, at the end of the day, you have to live a truthful life and be true to yourself. You have one life, and everything has to fall into place around that.

Music should be truthful and real, but it should also be healing and uplifting.

Faith is a very intimate process that involves being sincere and truthful to a spiritual presence.

As an actor, the only pressure I have is to just be truthful and to do my best work.

Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.

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.

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.

Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That’s the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.

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.

What a character wears and how it affects their mood and their movements has always been very important to me. A character’s clothes, if they’re truthful, can make audiences feel something.