Quotes About Reality

I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels.

I write about what hoaxers do, but I also want us to think about what believers do. Why do we want to believe a story like James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces?' Why did we want to believe that Lance Armstrong really did all these things that, looking back, seemed impossible?

I didn't fool myself into thinking I was world class just because I'd beaten James DeGale.

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

They haven't said it, but let's be clear: I would never have been on the list for James Bond, so I'm not labouring under that misapprehension.

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

It wasn't really my intention to make movies quickly - it's more to do with the reality of the Japanese film industry. That's been the only way for me to change my situation; to prove how little time you need to make a good film.

I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.

'Jaws' freed me to discover that a successful movie didn't make a damn bit of difference to my life.

As much as I would have loved to look like Jennifer Aniston in 'Friends,' that didn't happen. And I really tried! I hit that gym! I got a flatiron. But it didn't happen.

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

I'm not a big fan of 'Jersey Shore' and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.

The only person I've had sex with on Jersey Shore is my boyfriend.

There's a lot more to us than what you see on 'Jersey Shore.'

This culture is sort of antithetical in everything it says to the kids. I don't want to pick on 'Jersey Shore,' but it's pretty clear. I would tell the kids good behavior and hard work will pay off, and then they go home and watch TV and go, 'Oh, that's not true.'

I understand that there's going to be a shelf life for 'Jersey Shore.'

'Jersey Shore' won't be around forever.

Maybe I would go back to West Jerusalem without too much bother if I could lie to my kids and tell them they are equal citizens in a democratic state.

Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.

The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.

As soon as I reach any town, I talk to the shoe-shine boys or the barbers or the people in the restaurants, because it's Mr. Joe Doakes who is very close to reality.

I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.

Why did I not join one of the top five clubs in Europe? Because I am no longer one of the top five players around, and neither are Inter among the five best clubs.