Conor Oberst Quotes

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.

As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.

She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.

You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

I can smell bullshit from a mile away but it's so much harder to detect when it's around you all day.

I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.

People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit.

Love fattens on smooth words.

It is easy to finish things. Nothing is simpler. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.

What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.

No, it was honest," said Harry. "One of the only honest things you've said to me. You don't care whether I live or die, but you do care that I help you convince everyone you're winning the war against Voldemort.

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.