Truth quotes

“Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west, and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.”
Groucho Marx - Captain Jeffrey Spaulding

“- Rudy: You know why people call you a bum? Because it makes them feel better when they say it.
- Francis Phelan: Well, the truth can't hurt you. If you're a bum, you're a bum.”
Tom Waits - Rudy
Jack Nicholson - Francis Phelan

“The truth, Helen, is always the right answer.”
Ralph Fiennes - Amon Goeth

“You can't buy silence. You can only rent it. So if someone has something on you, they are always going to have it. So the cost has no ceiling. And the fear has no end to it. That's why some knowledge, some information is like a terminal disease. It's contagious and it's fatal.”
Ryan O'Neal - Gregory Stark

“- Conrad Brean: You watched the Gulf War, what do you see day after day? The one smart bomb falling down the chimney. The truth? I was in the building when we shot that shot - we shot in a studio, Falls Church, Virginia. One-tenth scale model of a building.
- Stanley Motss: Is that true?
- Conrad Brean: How the fuck do we know? You take my point?”
Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean
Dustin Hoffman - Stanley Motss

“You can follow the action, which gets you good pictures. You can follow your instincts, which'll probably get you in trouble. Or, you can follow the money, which nine times out of ten will get you closer to the truth.”
Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“- Stingo: Sophie, I want to understand. I'd like to know the truth.
- Sophie: The truth does not make it easier to understand, you know. I mean, you think that you find out the truth about me, and then you'll understand me. And then you would forgive me for all those... for all my lies.”
Peter MacNicol - Stingo
Meryl Streep - Sophie

“As a person of faith I'm bound by a different covenant than Doctor Arroway. But our goal is one and the same: the pursuit of Truth. I for one believe her.”
Matthew McConaughey - Palmer Joss

- Det. Nick Ruskin: You wanna know the truth, Alex? You're the one who really needs help.
- Dr. Alex Cross: Enlighten me, Nick. Tell me what the truth is.
- Det. Nick Ruskin: Truth is looking at a beautiful woman, like our Kate here, and saying to yourself: "I gotta have that, I gotta break her down". It's your basest animal self. Dig deep,... (continue)(continue reading)
Cary Elwes - Det. Nick Ruskin
Morgan Freeman - Dr. Alex Cross

“- Catherine: The truth is, I'm sorry it's over.
- Alexandra: The truth is, it's not over yet.”

Theresa Russell - Catharine
Debra Winger - Alexandra

“- Buck Russell: Did you brush your teeth?
- Miles Russell: Yeah. You can even feel my toothbrush.
- Buck Russell: You know, I have a friend who works at the crime lab at the police station. I could give him your toothbrush and he could run a test on it. To see if you actually brushed your teeth or just ran your toothbrush under the faucet.”
John Candy - Buck Russell
Macaulay Culkin - Miles Russell

“I really should have gone into medicine instead of publishing. Sometimes though. I think pushing books is a lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. And I have pills to cure ignorance, pills to cure boredom, pills to elevate moods and pills to open people's eyes to the awful truth.”
Ed Begley Jr. - Rupert

“A reality is just what we tell each other it is.”
Julie Carmen - Linda Styles

- Dimitri Moisevitch: I want to play a game with you, Dr. Floyd.
- Dr. Heywood Floyd: I don't have time for games.
- Dimitri Moisevitch: This is a good game. It's called "the truth". For two minutes, I will tell only the truth, and so will you.
Dana Elcar - Dimitri Moisevitch
Roy Scheider - Dr. Heywood Floyd

I can't find the words to express how the leadership of this country sickens me, people say "If you don't love America, then get the hell out", well I love America we love the people of America very much but when it comes to the government it stops right there, the government are a bunch of corrupt thieves, they are rapists and robbers, and we... (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Cruise - Ron Kovic

“- Irena Dubrovna Reed: What should I tell my husband? Naturally, he's anxious to have some word.
- Dr. Louis Judd: What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.”
Simone Simon - Irena Dubrovna Reed
Tom Conway - Dr. Louis Judd

“I don't see playing politics with the truth.”
Robert Redford - Henry Brubaker

“- Berger: We read five times that you were killed, in five different places.
- Victor Laszlo: As you can see, it was true every single time.”
John Qualen - Berger
Paul Henreid - Victor Laszlo