Scott Adsit Quotes

One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.

You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

You can never trust what you read.

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

I send you the newspapers; but they do not always speak true.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Be it true or false, so it be news.

Just because a document is classified does not mean that it is truthful.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.

Just because someone says something, whether it's at the podium during the briefing or the president tweets, I can't always assume that's factual. That's insane. We have to be very quick on our toes in fact checking.

I have heard that my Wikipedia entry is completely incorrect, but then again, so is everyone else's. I haven't bothered about that.

The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.