Truth quotes

“- Helen Eden: Objection! Mr. Baylor is purposely trying to confuse the witness.
- Arthur Baylor: I am not trying to confuse the witness; the witness has been trying to confuse this court!”

Wendy Crewson - Helen Eden
James Earl Jones - Arthur Baylor

“- Catherine Winslow: One thing puzzles me. Why are you always at such pains to prevent people knowing the truth about you, Sir Robert?
- Sir Robert Morton: Am I indeed?
- Catherine Winslow: You know that you are. Why?
- Sir Robert Morton: Which of us knows the truth about himself?
- Catherine Winslow: That is no answer.”
Rebecca Pidgeon - Catherine Winslow
Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Morton

“I'm a hypocrite. I ask for sincerity and I lie. I denounce the system as I embrace it. I want money and power and prestige: I want ratings and success. And I don't give a damn about you, or the world. That's the truth: for that I could say I'm sorry, but I won't.”

Eric Bogosian - Barry

“I really wouldn't care to scratch your surface, Mr. Kralik, because I know exactly what I'd find. Instead of a heart, a hand-bag. Instead of a soul, a suitcase. And instead of an intellect, a cigarette lighter... which doesn't work.”

Margaret Sullavan - Klara Novak

“The truth is the explanation that most people want to buy.”
Harris Yulin - Stanley Goldkiss

- Will: That's crazy. Mom and Dad never mentioned any...
- Taryn: That's the sort of thing parents tell their kids... "Goodnight darling. Say your prayers. Oh and by the way, your father and I torched some maniac last night".

Ira Heiden - Will
Jennifer Rubin - Taryn

“You see there is only one constant. One universal. It is the only real truth. Causality. Action, reaction. Cause and effect.”
Lambert Wilson - Merovingian

“Remember, the shadows are just as important as the light.”
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Jane Eyre

“We are not questioning your authority, sir, but if manners prevent our speaking the truth, we will be without manners.”
John Loder - Ianto

“All they'll have left to tell you is the unholy truth: that kids just die. And babies die too. It just happens. So you live with it.”

Busy Philipps - Alicia Browning

“Truth sometimes like stab of cruel knife.”
Warner Oland - Charlie Chan

“- Frank Abagnale Jr.: Brenda, I don't want to lie to you anymore. All right? I'm not a doctor. I never went to medical school. I'm not a lawyer, or a Harvard graduate, or a Lutheran. Brenda, I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was 16.
- Brenda Strong: Frank? Frank? You're not a Lutheran?”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Frank Abagnale Jr.
Amy Adams - Brenda Strong

“Wrong is wrong, even when it helps you.”
Robin Williams - Popeye

I usually say "Fuck the truth", but mostly, the truth fucks you.
Justin Kirk - Prior Walter

“- Julia: Do you have a hot tub in your room?
- Daniel Miller: No... why? Do you?
- Julia: No! No... it's more like a... it's not even really a hot tub. Y'know, really it just has holes in it...
- Daniel Miller: You don't have to protect my feelings. It's okay if you've got a got tub.
- Julia: Well then I do!”
Meryl Streep - Julia
Albert Brooks - Daniel Miller

“Truth, like art, is in the eye of the beholder. You believe what you choose and I'll believe what I know.”
Kevin Spacey - Jim Williams

“I shall tell the truth. Because if I did not, my nights would be haunted by the spectre of an innocent man expiating under the most frightful torture a crime he never committed.”

Paul Muni - Emile Zola

“Magic is order: earth, fire, air, water in perfect harmony. You have to believe it is so to make it so. A true magician's no mere trickster, Ben. He's a bearer of truth.”
Robert Davi - Merlin

“The only real truth is the work.”
Al Pacino - Viktor Taransky

“- Alicia Clark: We're not exactly the Washington Post, okay?
- Michael McDougal: No, we're not. We run stupid headlines because we think they're funny. We run maimings on the front page because we got good art. And I spend three weeks bitching about my car because it sells papers. But at least it's the truth. As far as I can remeber we never...” (continue)(continue reading)
Glenn Close - Alicia Clark
Randy Quaid - Michael McDougal

“Jack, you are a scientist; do you not think there are things in this Universe that you cannot understand and which are true?”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Abraham Van Helsing

“How do you describe both the beginning and an end? We should have known better, but we didn't. What does it matter if we think we know? In the end, there's no denying the truth.”
Kirk Cameron - Buck Williams

“Who the hell knows what is the truth and what is a lie?”
Gene Hackman - Sgt. Johnny Gallagher

“- Grubach: Kafka. Kafka, Kafka... Is that your real name?
- Kafka: Yes. W-why shouldn't it be?”
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Grubach
Jeremy Irons - Kafka

“I'm an innocent man. I spent 15 years in prison for something I didn't do. I watched my father die in a British prison for something he didn't do. And this government still says he's guilty. I want to tell them that until my father is proved innocent, until all the people involved in this case are proved innocent, until the guilty ones are...” (continue)(continue reading)
Daniel Day-Lewis - Gerry Conlon