Tennessee Williams Quotes

You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.

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

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.

‎"Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

I deliver my Truth hot and hard.

I say what I say because I believe it from the bottom of my soul and I can back it up.

Sometimes when people say things, we should actually believe what they say.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

You have to really care about what you say. And if you don't, it will never come out quite right, unless you go into acting, in which case you have to act fast before you realize it is something which you do not believe in.

I'm a big believer in you make your argument to everybody, and you do it in a way that is real and very candid. Even if people don't agree with you, they appreciate that you're telling them what you believe and they know that you care about them. That's I think a very important part of it that sometimes gets missed, is that people will be OK with you saying something they're not totally on-board with as long as they know that you believe it because you want to help them. That means you've got to care about everybody.

If you don't believe in a line, then you come off as the loser.

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

Truth is fine. Absolutely.

I do not believe...I know.

Truth is the easiest thing to sell.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

Truth is a big concept.

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.