Quotes About Reality

The problem that I find in 'MasterChef India' is that it doesn't look like 'MasterChef Australia.' It doesn't have that kind of mood.

That's how I hope to die: on my deathbed, watching 'Real Housewives of the Moon.'

It was hard for me to believe. I would look down and say, 'This is the moon, this is the moon,' and I would look up and say, 'That's the Earth, that's the Earth,' in my head. So, it was science fiction to us even as we were doing it.

As far as, like, the moon landing... did we go there? I believe so. Is it everything that we're told? I don't think so.

Is Michael Moore an honest documentarian? Honestly? I don't think he is... The real discussion gets left behind the entertainment value.

If you live in a family or have five roommates, there's some sort of reality check, but when you live alone, there's a lot more leeway for your fantasy life to be more and more a part of your everyday life.

I know nobody believes in peace anymore, but what else is there to work toward? As the years have gone by, peace seems like more and more of an impossibility.

More than anything, what we do as actors is to sit and watch, and I would never want to get so lost in the celebrity bubble I couldn't do that because my feet no longer touch the ground.

Movies, more than anything I can think of, are a great escape from reality. My reality, in particular, needs escaping.

Mortality defines the human condition.

I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

'They Both Die At The End' is about coming face to face with your own mortality.

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.

Awards do not pay the mortgage.

You don't hear many stories about people who grow up, have normal lives, pay taxes and pay bills, have mortgages and have kids. You hear stories about Billy the Kid for a reason.

You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

The most important thing you can do as an actor is bring as much of yourself to the character to ground the character in some sort of reality, and then you build around it and on top of it.

There's so much dishonesty with motherhood in general... The truth is it's just a lot of embarrassing, humiliating moments.

I don't think enough women are being honest about motherhood.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.