Quotes About Reality

For the most part, having more money and more fame make your life harder. It just does. I've seen it happen with people. You know, it's so hard to stay normal. It's so hard to stay happy. It's hard to remember why you were doing what you did in the first place.

I think you can laugh the hardest when you get closest to something real.

My poverty taught me a lot. If someone dies, I cannot cry as I have seen so much hardship and death. I went to shoot even the day my dad had died. Death is reality.

There is a real Harold Lee.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

Life is funny, at the same time being totally harsh.

Life's harsh. You can't escape what you are and what you project.

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

As so often happened during the dot-com bubble days, the revenues that AOL and PurchasePro were counting on did not materialize. And instead of confronting that harsh reality, AOL and PurchasePro cooked up a scheme to inflate PurchasePro's revenues.

When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over the loft and tell me how wonderful they were. Then you get out there into the harsh reality of the world, and you realize not everybody loves every little thing you do the way your mom did.

Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate.

There's probably people that go to Harvard and say, 'Listen, I went to Harvard. I got a great education, and I can't find a job, or I didn't become the success that I could have been.' Sure, I mean, you probably have that at every major university.

Let's face it, I'm a has-been.

You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.

Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.

Everything was based on my life and the way I grew up. Some of the bits I'm most proud of in 'Haters Back Off' actually happened.

All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is.

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too.

With action movies, that's just fun stuff for me. That's me being a kid again. Same with 'The Best of Me' and these romantic dramas. It's such a freedom from reality and social constructions. You get to just have fun and play and be in a movie.

I don't want to scar people with my baby flab. I have this extra skin that's hanging. I'm in shape, but my skin, from having a baby, is not cute, hanging off of my baby.

Women should be honest about the fact that although having a baby is wonderful, it can be hard.

I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I'm having fun. I'm just not having as much fun as people make out.

I love doing heightened reality stuff, and having fun with the characters I play, especially in a kind of darker way, which I don't get to do in 'Primeval' at all.