Quotes About Reality

I do hip-hop music, and I've gotten famous off of hip-hop music, and I know that I'm successful, and I've created my own definition of success, what success means to me. So the hip-hop world is all just really fake to me.

I said it when I got hired. I said, for five years, I had a 1,000 people telling me I was going to be a head coach in the NBA. And when I got the job, those same 1,000 people were shocked.

Most historians are engaged in fiction.

A lot of my die-hard fans think I have a lot of hits, but I don't.

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

I enjoy 'The Apprentice' and the one that's called 'Take My Life' and the other one called 'Stop Hitting Me.'

For me, I'm not going to be hitting the ball out of the ballpark. I know that.

I had a little glimpse of what fame holds, and I decided it held a load of nothing.

I'm a lucky boy! I could be holding a gun in Afghanistan. There's boys out there doing what they've got to do, and there's people digging holes, and there's people driving buses. And there's nothing wrong with that.

I hate holidays because one expects them to be perfect and so often they are not. There's the build-up, the looking forward to it and wanting everything to be right, but so many things can go wrong and then it can be such a disappointment. I find the expectation is usually bigger than the result.

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.

A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.

I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.

I don't live in the Hollywood bubble. I never have and I never will.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Hollywood is kind of a bad world.

Hollywood is a world all its own.

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

Everyone claims to have found the 'Holy Grail' - the perfect formula that can guarantee a hit in Bollywood. But those who seriously believe in it are deluded.

Coming from where I came from, being a foster youth... like, living in all those different homes... I am glad I had those experiences because now, when I perform, I can come from a place of reality: I know how different people live.

Walking into my hometown where I grew up with crowds of people waiting for me to get pictures, it just didn't seem real.

I love those moments - the homework, the school run, when I get to chat to other mums. That's real life.

People watch 'The Social Network,' and what they hone in on is the wealth and the parties and the excitement, and they don't realize the grind and the 'gruelingness' and the disappointment.

Let's be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much.