Quotes About Reality

I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality.

You dont live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.

You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.

I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.

When you are in the American Idol bubble, a lot of contestants want to go as far as they can and wish to be on point with ready-to-go songs.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

What if what you know isn't what people want to hear?

We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.

Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.

People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.

Everybody wants to have a commentary on my life, like they are actually living it. Cool, comment all you want but I'm the one that's living it.

Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.

Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."

People don't want truth, they just want trash.

People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated