Quotes About Reality

It's also a terrible kind of sentiment [ reality TV] for children and for people. It makes people feel like they all want to be famous for no reason.

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Profiles mean nothing. You could say, 'I want this,' but then it's not out there.

For me, I focus on trying to get it right and be as fair as possible. There's not much else I can do. People will believe what they want - facts be damned.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

Don't mistake the Russia you want to exist for the Russia that there actually is. Be realistic.

My thing in this day and age, with reality television and so much other stuff that is going on, is people want to feel the reality. They want to relate.

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.

Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

We started the season off really hot, then we had some ups and downs. You can't have a season where it's perfect. It's what you want but in reality it's not going to happen all the time.

Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it's got real value.

We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward.

Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.

Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.

In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.

Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?" "Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up.

Maybe every two films you need to do documentary to tell what you really want to tell and not be limited by the medium. With documentary you don't create the reality you have to hunt the reality.

Your mind is made up of light. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. The transcendental eternal light is everywhere. It's the light of god or whatever you want to call it.

People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless.

And so, yet again, we crush the blossom in our hand, lift our gaze from the tumbling petals, and ask the world, 'Where, then, is this beauty you promised?

The simple ones aren't simple. The broken ones aren't broken. They are rearranged.