Top 1200 Truman Show Quotes & Sayings

I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.

I think projects find me. It's really interesting. Everything I've done, from "The Truman Show," the "Eternal Sunshine" to "Yes Man" and "Bruce Almighty," always come into my life at the perfect time.

He [Harry S. Truman] loved politicians - even Republicans.

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show.

My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war.

Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.

During his presidency, Truman and the Republicans were locked in a series of furious assaults on each other that outraged him and made Truman an enduring foe of a party and its representatives, which he saw as on the wrong side of almost every domestic and foreign policy issue he considered important.

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in the U.S. Navy at the time he issued the order.

My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.

[The rumor that David Cameron maybe once did this unspeakable thing with a pig's head] it was freakish and weird. It seemed such a coincidence that I couldn't quite process it. And then, as it sank in, I genuinely had the thought, "Am I living in a Truman Show sort of VR simulation designed to send me insane?"

Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.

The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China.

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

Yeah, my first love was 'The Simpsons,' but in terms of movies and stuff, I loved 'Back To The Future,' I loved 'Jurassic Park,' I loved 'The Truman Show.'

I'm a Harry Truman, JFK, Scoop Jackson and Bill Clinton Democrat.

It fell to President Harry Truman to contain Soviet expansionism. He built America's first peacetime alliances, starting in Western Europe, then in Asia.

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through.

When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?

I do like 'The Truman Show.'

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

Harry Truman's decision to fire Douglas MacArthur at the height of the Korean War in April 1951 shocked the American political system and astonished the world. Much of the world didn't realize the president had the power to fire a five-star general; much of America didn't realize Truman had the nerve.

Nobody wants to hear that you met Harry Truman... I met Harry Truman... But you know what I mean? Nobody's interested. They want to know you met Rihanna. And that kills me.

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

We're living in a time when the most famous people in the world have no specific skill set and are known for living their lives in front of the world. How strange is that? The appeal makes sense to me - it's like 'The Truman Show,' getting a chance to peak into someone's bedroom or see the way someone fights with their husband.

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

Everyone is against Harry (Truman) except the people.

My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.

What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot. Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure. Norman Mailer and Vidal, the same thing. The bestselling writers now, there's no great animal energy with them.

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

Trump has the opportunity to be the president who, like Harry Truman, redirected U.S. foreign policy for a generation.

All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's.

Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn't.

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

We support President Truman's civil rights program.

The very first thing the President [Truman] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He explained, 'The seal has to go everywhere the President goes. It must be displayed upon the lectern when he speaks. The eagle used to face the arrows but I have re-designed it so that it now faces the olive branches ... what do you think?' I said, 'Mr. President, with the greatest respect, I would prefer the American eagle's neck to be on a swivel so that it could face the olive branches or the arrows, as the occasion might demand.'

Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.

Eisenhower was a pretty peace-oriented president. Truman was a pretty hawkish. I would argue, if we had more time, I would argue Truman had a lot to do with getting the Cold War going.

President Truman made his name by looking into contracting. And that's how integrity within the military procurement started in the United States.

Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.

If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.