Birdman: Quotes about Truth Page 1
Daniel Cobb
Published Apr 20, 2026
MIKE: (reading Riggan's napkin) Thank you for an honest performance. Ray Carver.
RIGGAN: Yeah.
MIKE: Yeah?
RIGGAN: That's when I knew I was gonna be an actor, right there.
MIKE: (chuckling) Oh…
RIGGAN: What's so funny?
MIKE: Nothing, it's just, it's on a cocktail napkin.
RIGGAN: Yeah, so?
MIKE: He was f***ing drunk, man.
1) Carver thanks a young Riggan for an "honest performance." It's truth that Carver sees and enjoys in his acting. 2) Mike's point is that a drunk Carver didn't know what he was saying, and there's no truth in a drunk man's words.
Which of these two truths is, well, truthier?
