History Quotes / BelievingTheirOwnLies

-> ''If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Creator/KevinCostner, and it worked because ''I'' believed it.''

->''Aah! I'm turning into a chicken!''

->"The problem with telling a good lie is that the liar may become so caught up in it that she loses sight of the true, and she starts to believe the lie herself. [[MurderInc The Children]] hid their history so well that they took their own deceptions as reality. In doing so, [[{{Flanderization}} they forget the soul of what they were made to be.]]"

-->--'''Eric Hoffer'''

-->--'''Richard Paul'''

-->--'''Ocelot''' on Huey Emmerich, ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''

-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Assamite (Revised)''

-->--'''Karai''' to Shredder, ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012''

-->--''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012''

-->--'''Belle Fontiere''', ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner''

-->--'''Morgan Britt,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

-->--'''Saul Goodman''', ''Series/BreakingBad''

-->-- '''Detective Olivia Benson to Abraham Ophion/Eugene Hoff''', ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''

->''"You know the hardest man to break? The type who's fooling himself. That takes time."''

-> ''"My God. You really do believe this."''

-->-- '''Detective Olivia Benson to Abraham Ophion/Eugene Hoff''', ''LiveActionTV/{{Law And Order: Special Victims Unit}}''

-->-- '''Detective Olivia Benson to Abraham Ophion/Eugene Hoff''', ''Series/{{Law And Order: Special Victims Unit}}''

-> ''"You know, I thought that you were just another con artist. Seeking out people that were starved for anythign that would give them meaning in their life. They're easy marks. You talk about God and the Apocalypse and they give you all of their money. But you are much more pathetic than that. You actually believe your own hype. You've conned yourself."''
-->-- '''Detective Olivia Benson to Abraham Ophion/Eugene Hoff''', ''Series/{{LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit}}''

->''My mother died when I was a baby. All I have is pictures and the stories my father used to tell me about her. I begged him to tell me those stories over and over. When I was five and I went to school, I started to tell my new friends those same stories, pretending that she was alive. Then I started believing that she *was* alive; that she'd just gone away; that she was coming back.''
-->-- '''William T. Riker''', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "Interface"

->''"You know what, Cartman? I believe you. I believe that you believe you helped write that joke. That's how people like you work! [[ItsAllAboutMe Your ego]] is so out of whack [[SelfServingMemory that it will do whatever it can to protect itself]]. And people with a messed up ego can do these mental gymnastics to convince themselves they're awesome, when really, they're just douchebags!"''

->''"We humans are best defined not as "the rational" but as "the self-deceiving" animal."''

-> ''If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because ''I'' believed it.''

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''