Quotes About Reality

Is this the life you really want? Or is it just the fantasy of it?

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.

People see what they want to see when they need to.

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality.

Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.

Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".

Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

Disappointment is simply a dream that doesnt want to become a reality.

Guard the secret theater of your heart. See nothing there that you do not want to see happen in reality.

It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get

And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.