Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it.
Original French: “Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent.”
The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.
To seek advice is easy, easy-approach job. To find the truth by yourself, that is a little difficult, and you have to work hard continuously, and you will find it.
Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey.
My approach is literally what is being told in the scene. I try to be as real as possible, and I try to find my own truth in it and figure out how to best serve each character.
I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.
Whatever the genre of film you're doing and whatever the source material is, you have to adapt to the different genre, but it's the same work, as an actor. You're just trying to ground it in reality and find your truth in it.