Derek Carr Quotes

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Kids know when you're pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they're being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

It's best not to appear to believe what you say but to believe what you say.

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

One of the things I learned early on was the system of believing: you have to believe in what you say. The camera is the arbiter of truth; it's the all-seeing eye that can pick out discrepancies. You can't lie to the camera. You must believe in what you're saying, or the audience won't believe you.

I'm not a fake person.

What you haven't seen from me are false attacks.

I'm not a liar; I'm a truth teller.

I don't have any reason to lie about anything.

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

There's a bit of truth in everything I do, you know.

I do not make stories up, full stop.

Everything I say is true.

I'm genuine and people can believe what I say.

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.