Quotes About Reality

I think it's reality that Iran is going to have influence in Iraq. All elements of Iraq accepted that.

In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.

People don't know much about what's going on on the ground in Iraq: what you see in the media is heavily censored.

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

There is no getting around the reality that the second Iraq war was a war of choice; had it been carried out differently, it still would have been an expensive choice and almost certainly a bad one.

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

It's ironic to watch a dress on a mannequin or a model on a catwalk who's not anything like the person that's going to buy it.

The ending of irrational fantasies is always going to come as a rude jolt.

However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some 'Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.'

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it.

It is what it is, it is what you make it.

People misinterpret my lyrics sometimes too, but I mean, it is what it is.

I can't lose any more weight. I would very much like to be 10cm shorter and 10kgs lighter. It would make my life a lot easier but it is what it is. What can I do?

People are brainwashed into believing that Italy is the seat of luxury manufacturing. If it's made in Italy, it must be good. That's just hype. Quality is where you bring it.

Like everybody coming from Europe, I didn't believe it at first, but you really need time to adjust. I thought it was going to be like going from Croatia to Italy. But you really need the time just to understand things here.

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

The reality is, when I'm sitting in a hotel room at 3 in the morning, and I see something on the Internet that interests me in the form of a band I want to hear, I like the ability to just go online to iTunes and download it immediately.

People are often disappointed when they meet me because I'm not this giant, flamboyant - you know, I don't wear sequined jackets.

The Russian government imposed my head on the body of Russian models in straight jackets.

When I did 'Percy Jackson,' people told me, 'Oh, you're going to be so famous... you're not going to be able to walk down the street... it's going to be huge,' and it wasn't - although it was big for my career.

I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.

When you go to jail you know who real and who ain't.

What I want people to consider is that no matter what it is we want to believe, and no matter what story it is we want to jam the world into, the truth is the truth.