Steven Soderbergh Quotes

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.

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

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.

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

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

I lie a lot - it's really useful.

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

To have lied is to have suffered.

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

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.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.

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

The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.