Quotes About Reality

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

Money came in left, right and centre; you just thought that's how it was for everyone and that's how it will always be.

Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.

You can only get to a certain point when you feel confident with the simulator and it always changes when you get to the track and you actually drive it for real for the first time.

There's certain things that people hold as truth but that are not always necessarily true.

I've learned that certain things are much harder than when you write about them in a book.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

People think because you're a celebrity, because you're on TV, because you're 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Men Alive, things like that, that we're bathing in champagne and taking limos door to door. But we're literally the same guys, just with much busier schedules.

I know television. I've done it for a while, and I know that most of the time, you don't get second chances.

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters.

We are living in an age where it's difficult to know what the truth is and we have got politicians in charge who actually appear to not really care what the truth is.

Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski.

I thought the Charleston would be a bit like the jive, but it isn't really.

Don't try to chase something that you want to be there but isn't actually there.

I stopped chasing the music dream back in '74.

Sometimes people chat loosely. Sometimes people just speak their minds and what's on their mind ain't necessarily real or facts, so I don't take it too serious. I'm more interested in making the music, I don't really play that.

When I need a reality check, I call my mum.

You're playing a role, but you're still feeling it. You can walk away from it after 'Cut,' but if you're playing a sad or mixed-up person, it's hard to stay in that place for these longish period of times. You kind of have to check out.

I never check my bank account. I know that sounds crazy. But I don't know how much is in there. I never know how much is in there. I have an idea - I have a bottom line - but I never look because I always make believe there's never anything in there.

But the people who give me the best reality check are my children.

It is very important to just be real and have a good check on reality in life.