Dr. Cal Lightman quotes from Lie to Me

Cal Lightman

(to Gillian) Politician. That's all you. Charge him by the lie. You can retire tomorrow

Cal Lightman

The only way three people can keep a secret is if two of them are dead.

Cal Lightman

Truth or happiness, never both.

Cal Lightman

Well, I guess we're all here. Someone wants the truth, somebody who wants to be right, and us, the idiots in the middle.

Cal Lightman

These expressions are universal. Emotion looks the same whether you're a suburban housewife or a suicide bomber. The truth is written on all our faces.

Cal Lightman

That's okay. That's okay. I don't have much faith in words, myself. Statistically speaking, the average person tells three lies per ten minutes conversation. And granted, just regular people. We haven't studied people planning to fire-bomb a black church. Could skew differently

Cal Lightman

What is that now?

Cal Lightman

How old are you?

Cal Lightman

Body language tells the truth. Even from the grave.

Cal Lightman

Anybody else want a side of feces? Anybody? Side of feces?

Cal Lightman

(reprimanding Ria) Hey! It's none of your business. Now, go help Loker.

Cal Lightman

You lie and I'll know it.

Cal Lightman

In my experience, self-castrating pedophiles generally tell the truth.

Cal Lightman

(referring to the runaway child, Samantha Birch) She's gonna run. She's gonna run! Yeah, there she goes.

Cal Lightman

Yeah, congratulations. Once again, you’ve arrived at the apparently foreign destination of none-of-your-damn-business.

Cal Lightman

I prefer to get the truth in person, but sometimes you just have to make do.