Quotes About Reality

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

I had my idea of what the series finale of 'King of the Hill' would be, but that's not what the actual series finale was.

There's an element of fantasy in both 'Animal Kingdom' and 'Peaky Blinders' but they're both real in lots of ways.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

I watch 'The Great British Bake Off' in the way I used to watch people kiss on TV in front of my parents when I was young. Cringe.

I have to keep explaining to people that screen kissing isn't quite the same; it's close, but it isn't quite the same as a normal, real-life kiss.

I've never been that comfortable with the acting thing. It's difficult for me to separate what's really going on. If there's kissing, that's kissing. I'm not acting; I don't know how.

I left home at 18, I thought I knew everything. It was fun for a while and then it wasn't fun any more.

I was always one of those people who thought my love life would be dramatic - a knight in shining armour would take me away on his horse. I was that girl; I'm still that girl. What better way to live that life than being an actor?

One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

I don't think there's anything good that comes out of 'Hard Knocks,' but we'll see.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

We've had that carefree, light-hearted image of fun, fun, fun. Everyone knows it's not really like that.

But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

Of course I watch 'Life with La Toya' on OWN.

I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.

I started out with this 'La Boheme' fantasy, but as you get older, the 'La Boheme' fantasy becomes less sexy, believe me.

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

We don't get groupies, well I don't see them, anyway. That was something that I always looked forward to and am constantly disappointed by the lack of!

Accounting and finance are not reality, the are a reflection of reality, and the accuracy of that reflection depends on the ability of accountants and finance professionals to make reasonable assumptions and to calculate reasonable estimates.

Child, there's a sayin' every fishmonger has. When you buy land, you buy stones. When you buy fish, you buy bones.

What's this shit?" Ray demanded, looking at the salesclerk. "Honey, truth hurts, but ain't no way you're a Magnum." "Well, I ain't no medium!" The clerk smiled. "Yeah, but I was being generous.