Quotes About Reality

I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

Think what you want, this is what we are.

If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.

If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.

This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.

You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the window and it turns out to be a way that you never imagined.

My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.

I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

Just because I've walked into this crazy fantasy doesn't mean I can just abandon my other plans, much as I might want to.

People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don't change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee.

That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.

There are days where I turn on the TV or I look at the news and I'm like, "I want to go to Mars. This is insane." But I can't go to Mars! I need to face reality and just to have some hope.

I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.

Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.

No matter the truth, people see what they want to see.

Audiences and critics they don't like seeing what happens in real life. Why do you think comedies make all the money at the box office? People want to go and laugh. I can understand that.