Lisa Graff Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

You can't lie to your audience. You can't lie to your fans.

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me!

I never lie to my fans.

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

You tell me the truth, and I am hooked for life, because the one thing that you can't find nowadays is the person who is going to be absolutely honest with you.

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.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

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

When you speak the truth, people realize that.

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.

I don't give false claims any due.

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

I'm not a liar. I'm a pretty straight up person.

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

No one on the planet Earth is going to be able to look at me on television and say that I'm a liar. It will not happen.