Quotes About Reality

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.

There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.

I've met people who don't know who they are, but only know who they are online. When I'm separating Bretman Rock and Bretman, it's really just to help with my mental health. The Internet is not real life.

I think that mental illness is something that is so real.

People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty.

Over the years, there's been some cases where people did come up who said they were healed, but really they were not healed. I do believe it's possible for individuals to mentally convince themselves they are, but that does not deny the real healings. That doesn't dismiss the fact that a lot of people are really cured.

If you live around dummies and fake blood for six months, it becomes a part of you. It's fake blood, but sometimes I still feel the real scent of blood, so it's more mentally collapsing, not only physical.

People want to see someone who looks like they might have this enviable life, but in turn, they are a mess and their life is a mess.

Anybody's life is probably a mess of secrets and lies when you boil it right down.

On very base level, I'm a hot mess.

We're broke. It's never a fun message to deliver.

You get so brainwashed. You're on the road 300 days a year, and that's why guys get so messed up. This life becomes a part of them. It's not real, but some guys who are still in the business think it is.

Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?

That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.

Let's be honest: It wasn't just the banks who messed up. There were a lot of people who tried to buy assets they couldn't afford. That's a reality.

You can't be the best every game. Even Messi can have a bad game.

We can't all be Lionel Messi, even if we want to.

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

This life is messy.