Willem Dafoe Quotes

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

I used to lie a lot as a child, which I now regret. I think it is much easier just to tell the truth.

When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.

I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest.

Lying was a way of life. The solution to the problem is ultrasimple: tell the truth, no matter how painful.

I chose to compromise my principles. I broke my promise to always tell the truth.

I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, 'Why am I lying to everybody?' I would hear other people lie and be like, 'You sound so stupid.' So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.