Quotes About Reality

The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences.

Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal.

'UnREAL' has always been provocative and bitingly honest, which makes the show what it is.

There something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams. Even if the dreams don't come true - that, to me, is what's beautiful about Los Angeles. It's full of these people who have moved there to chase these dreams.

I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.

There's no point considering something which is very unrealistic.

The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

I don't like doing movies that are meaningless or unrealistic. I like things with a lot of reality to them. I'm a pretty serious kind of person myself. Things affect me.

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.

I think that people have this unrealistic expectation that people are just supposed to love them. I'm sorry to break it you, but ain't nobody supposed to do nothing.

Nobody lives happily ever after, because that is extremely unrealistic.

A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

I wasn't born into a religious home, but I was just not a materialist. I didn't believe the material world was all there was or, even, most of what there was. I always felt that I was part of a reality of which the majority was unseen.

Reality is on a delay. For you, nothing is now. Realizing this fact is unsettling. If we can only react to the past, how do we manage to navigate the present? It's easy to spiral into a treatise on free will while in the fetal position, overthinking our forever past.

It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.

Fiction allows us to both evade truth and to approach it - or, rather, it's fiction that allows us to 'construct' our world. It's haunted by the unimaginable and the unspeakable.

There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.

I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.

I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.

I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming.