Quotes About Reality

I think that life is messy and that human beings are insane.

I meet these rock guys, these metal guys, and we are very real.

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

I'm not a Method actress. I work in the present, the day-to-day.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.

I love the Mexican muralists - like Rivera, Orozco - and the music of Walter Benton. They gave you a sense that reality was much more than life.

In Mexico, you're close to death all the time.

You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.

When I went back home to Seattle after filming 'Dune' in Mexico, I thought, 'Did this really happen?'

Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe.

I just have to live my life knowing that there could be a good chance that I might die in middle age.

Since I still think of myself as a middle class guy, people get to see that side of me in films like 'Middle Class Abbayi.'

I am hard-core middle class.

In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.

You can't ask someone to act middle-aged. Someone has to bring their own fatigue to it.

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it's a real doctor... I went to Beverly Hills to meet this midwife; you'd think they'd be in nature.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.

No aspect of my brief and mild fame actually made me happier.

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.