Michael Moorcock Quotes

I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.

All I can say is what I believe.

You better mean what you're singing or you need to get out of this business. That's where I'm really lucky because they know I mean what I'm singing or I ain't gonna sing it.

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.

There's this thing about authenticity when you rap, right? Whether or not it's real, it has to feel real.

Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.

I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.

Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

I know very much what I believe.

[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in. So I had to pick songs that I felt the same about.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But my feeling is that first they have to convince themselves. First they have to justify this stuff to themselves and if they can do that, even for just the moment that it's coming out their mouth, then they can kind of mouth it with kind of believable sincerity, even if some of us.

Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.

The heart is what matters most of all

The ideal is not believing in, but believing from.

And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.