Quotes About Reality

I am opposed to autobiographies, mainly because most autobiographies lie.

I feel like I've spent a lot of time imagining home and thinking about a dream-like place, as opposed to a real place, because that's not what I was able to do, meaning go home or be home.

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

You just go straight for the reality of the situation. So when I sit down to write, I find myself judging it as I'm doing it, as opposed to letting it free flow.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

I challenge the idea that films about rich people are escapism and films about working class people are dour and sad. I find the opposite's the case.

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever.

I do see things that are funny on the net. I Googled myself the other day and found out that I was worth $250m, and that I was the highest-paid guy in show business! I wish so hard it was true. It is, of course, the complete opposite. I'm neither rich nor do I make a lot of money.

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

In North Korea, people who are actually oppressed don't even know they're oppressed.

I go to see films at the multiplex because they are not good films, and so I don't have to think about things like death, social oppression, or yes, my fertility, while I watch them.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

I'm an optimist, so I think everything can be worked out and fixed. But from having cancer I learned that even if you're even an optimist, sometimes you just have to face the facts that certain things are broken.

I mean, I'm always optimistic about most things I do and never bank my hopes on anything, but I got what 'Take Me Out' was right from the word go.

I was a full-time mom for seven years. You go back on tour, you're back in hotels, you're ordering room service, and you're getting an itinerary slipped under your door every,day. You're kind of thinking, 'Did I go home for seven years, or was that just a dream?'

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.'

Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.