Anderson Cooper Quotes

I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate.

I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth.

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.

When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.

The best stories come out of the truth.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.

I always tell what I see.

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

We don't typically use music. We don't manipulate our audience into what we think it should feel. We tell the truth. That's 'Southland' Style'... and I love it!

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

I am a regular writer in Mexico, and I always tell the truth in my writings.

I can do no more than tell the truth.

It's kind of hard to tell your life story and state all facts and it still be sweet.