Tell Quotes

I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

I think we need to tell stories that reflect our world.

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.

I didn't go in there and tell them I think you should move me, but I also understand the nature of this business.

You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

In order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all.

I have to tell you, every day is a roller coaster.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen.

If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in today. You give the illusion of being in control, sexy, at ease, with never a difficult moment. Those are the basic lies that all celebrities tell. For me, they're the more dangerous lies to come to terms with.

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.