Ehren Kruger Quotes

Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.

Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

I've heard everything that anybody can make up or spin, and I know how to cut right through and get to the heart of any issue.

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.

We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

I have been able to sniff out a phony.

You can never trust what you read.

Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

… the cynic has unusually high motives or insight. He is better able to see behind false appearances, and he is more shocked and disappointed to discover the low motives of others. Because he is unwilling to be hypocritical, he is less popular and so he succeeds and leads less. Most people dislike cynics because cynics expose most people's hypocrisy.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

The public are not fools.

Audiences are savvy. You can never go wrong assuming the best of them.

The 'Rule of Three' is simply getting the other guy to agree to the same thing three times in the same conversation, it's really hard to repeatedly lie or fake conviction.

As a child, I saw how the industry's sweet-talkers operate. For years, they tried to make my father feel like he was the best actor in the whole world. My father never took them seriously. I, too, imbibed that trait from him.

I am always a woke person, know about things, always feel a certain type of way.

Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

We have so much access to one another through technology and everything else, that we're very much used to people being real. When folks go on TV and they're basically acting - if they were good actors they'd be acting and paid for it for a living, but they're not good actors. When we see bad acting, it doesn't look like bad acting, it looks weird, and we are turned off by it. I'm not talking about anybody in particular, that's just politics right now. This generation, I feel like, has incredible bullshit detectors.