Quotes About Reality

Life is not a piece of cake, and it certainly is not for many of the people I know.

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?' Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality - so the function of art is to make things - to show: 'Hang on, this is real.'

I once read that I had six kids and was a pig farmer. That's not entirely accurate.

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

I love pigs. I think they're very cute. I really want a pet pig, but those micro pigs, they don't stay micro.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.

When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even more real to me.

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you.

Even though I'm in the changing room and I know I am, you still have to pinch yourself every night that you can say you're a Manchester United player.

People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.

Sometimes I do pinch myself about the life I've had.

We wake up and pinch ourselves most days.

It definitely feels like I'm living a dream, but I try not to pinch myself because I don't want to wake up.

What I've learned is Twitter is only a bubble - take it with a pinch of salt.

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed.

There is this perception that TV is glamorous and it is the pinnacle of your existence - I don't think it is.

I don't think a lot of people realized that piracy is out there, and it's not a Disney-esque or Johnny Depp-esque type of thing.