A Quote by Daniel Keys Moran

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

Daniel Keys Moran

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Actors Good Good Liar Good Memories Liars Memories Writers

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Daniel Keys Moran
American - Writer
Born: November 30, 1962

I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.

Rob Lowe

I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.

Rob Lowe

Liars need to have good memories.

Algernon Sidney

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

Daniel Keys Moran

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

Chuck Klosterman

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

Mark Twain

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

Cate Blanchett

When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.

Melanie Laurent

Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?

Jim Rohn

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

Peter Greenaway

Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

Gore Vidal

As far as Ted Cruz, he's one of the greatest liars and biggest liars I've ever known.

Donald Trump

What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

David Mitchell

All men are liars. All women are liars, too.

Ilona Andrews

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.