Quotes About Reality

Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns.

Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.

He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can't shine a sneaker.

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty.

It's not a hard job, radio or standup, there are hard parts of it, sure. There are guys who do ten hours of construction a day don't want to hear me talk about my job being difficult. Compared to what a lot of people do, this is genuinely easy.

People hear 'East Palo Alto' and they think, 'Oh, you're from Stanford.' They don't understand. It's like 'The Lion King:' You've got Pride Rock, and then you've got where the hyenas are. It ain't too far, but it's a completely different world.

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

In the juniors, you are kind of a star, but just because you are a good junior doesn't mean you will be a good pro.

To the unwashed public, Joan Collins is a star. But to those who know her, she's a commodity who would sell her own bowel movement.

I've been in movies where so much of the conversation was about, 'Well, after this movie, you're gonna be the biggest movie star.' I sort of have learned that you never really can predict any of that.

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

I'm a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will burst.

I've been asked to do 'American Idol' and 'X Factor.' I'm an Ed McMahon kind of girl. 'Star Search?' I'm in, all day long. It felt more authentic, and the market wasn't oversaturated with karaoke contests.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not.

I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.

I don't think I am a star; I consider myself like any other girl who is of my age. Others may be working in office and doing different jobs. Similarly I don't think I am doing something different... I am also working.

Although I do love popcorn movies - I'll totally be there to see 'Star Wars' - it's rare to see something in a movie theater that goes beyond our expectations.

There are people who fly to the height of stardom in a single day, and then there are people like me. I used to have this ridiculous idea that I absolutely had to be a big, big movie star. Now all I'm after is happiness.

I didn't fall for a lot of that stardom stuff.

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

Cody put everything he could into the Stardust gimmick but that's not who he is, that's not who he ever is going to be.

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.