106 Quotes by Louis Theroux

Perhaps it's understandable to be more jaded on one's second exposure to something strange.

The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

I wasn’t quite sure what I’d just seen, but I knew it was time for me to leave.

On the list of qualities necessary to humans trying to make our way through life, truth scores fairly low. Why do people believe and do weird things? Because in the end, feeling alive is more important than telling the truth. We have evolved as living creatures to express ourselves, to be creative, to tell stories. We are instruments for feeling, faith, energy, emotion, significance, belief, but not really truth.

But people don’t change their beliefs easily. Even when their deepest convictions are challenged – by the failure of the world to end, for example – they continue on their way, sticking to the old routine: they get back on their weird bikes and ride again.

But one didn’t attach any more significance to these rumours than to the idea that a certain film star had a furry animal removed from his rectum.

She said. “I actually had my butt torn a few weeks ago. But it’s like any job. You have good days and bad days.

There's always a negotiation that goes on to persuade people we are coming to the subject with an open mind but without surrendering too many pawns. We don't want to misrepresent the fact that we will draw our own conclusions.

After studying the subject for years, watching countless YouTube videos of Scientology handlers filming critics and journalists, it felt amazing to be on the receiving end myself: I felt like I'd been blooded.