Jack Nicholson on truth and lies

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In context

• Beauty

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (1600–1), Act I, scene iii.In context

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill1874–1965