Quotes About Reality

If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas.

If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality.

L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.

I grew up in suburbia, so it's a world I'm familiar with... but in my experience, all the families that I grew up thinking were the perfect families who kept it together... all their secrets would come out, and it'd be something dark and disgusting beneath the surface, so I wanted to exploit that.

Getting under the surface of real-life humans' poker faces humans is hard in a sitcom, even a drama.

One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.

If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.

I think it's strange when people my age and younger get surgery. Somebody's got to play old people.

I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it.

For most people who are transitioning, surgery isn't really a financial reality. So to place these goals of 'in order to be happy with my body, I must do this thing' is really damaging to yourself.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.

Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.

When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.

When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.

You'd be surprised how many fans I think are from 'The Bachelorette' will come up and say something about football.

When I was first on 'Dancing With The Stars', people were really shocked and surprised.

But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person I guess.