Quotes About Reality

When you have been lucky enough to move up the ladder, all you see, really, is the slide back down. You don't see the further steps upwards.

I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards of 90 percent are guilty. But a ten percent error rate if that's what it is, or even five percent, is really way too high.

There's no sugar coating it: drought isn't sexy. Nobody wants to hear about it, and many of us who live an urban existence don't know much about it, if we're honest.

Because I'm seen on 'Oz', a lot of the urban cats in the city are like, 'Yo, I thought you'd be rolling in a Mercedes?' And I'm just like, 'Not at all!' This is cable money. There is a big difference between that and a network. But still I can't complain. It's better than doing a 9 to 5 any day.

From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.

When I thought about Detroit, I would think big city, very urban - not a lot of places to walk around, not a lot of parks. I sort of pictured Manhattan almost, where, besides Central Park, it's all city and big buildings. But now that I'm here, you see people pushing strollers, people hanging out in the park.

Basically, I think that Gotham is all of our urban nightmares and fears made into reality. Instead of hearing footsteps from behind you while you walk down the streets, turning around and finding nobody there, there is somebody there.

New York is actually a pretty safe place, and I think invoking the Bronx as a metaphor for the nightmarish urban environment is no longer spot on.

Washington, D.C., has for too long ignored the reality that if we do not invest in infrastructure in urban America we are doing so at the jeopardy of the economy.

I rarely meet men in real life as extraordinary as ones on film, and rarely see women on film as extraordinary as ones I know in real life

A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening fish when she falls into the water.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Whatever your determination or will power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the way of things

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality.

A vision on its own is not enough. Hard work and dedication is required to make that vision a reality.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.