Quotes About Reality

I was once asked by Jeremy Paxman what is it about celebrity and said that people these days seem to think a celebrity is someone who has escaped the constraints of ordinary people: that they don't have the same kind of problems, almost as if they're classical gods.

When the camera is on, I am an actor; otherwise, I am an ordinary person.

I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

I'm predisposed to believe we live in a complicated, enmeshed reality. There's no authentic or organic.

Folks who think organised crime is a thing of the past are only kidding themselves.

If you organize your life around some political party's list of things you should believe, or an individual that you think is going to come and save you, you are disconnecting yourself from truth. And there is a price to pay.

I tried out for 'Tough Enough' season 2 originally and made it to the final casting episode and got cut by Kevin Dunn, who said all I wanted to do was run and flip and jump.

'I'm a Celebrity' was so much harder than I originally thought. Until you are in the jungle, you don't really know what you're in for.

My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.

New Orleans is a great place, a place of celebration. But on the other hand, there's a reality to it, there's violence, there's misguided youth.

How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life.

I've learned to not have expectations. I think the first movie I did, I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm going to win an Oscar!' You can't do that, you're going to let yourself down.

Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.

I can tell you that going to the Oscars is not as exciting as people think, at least for me.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

I mean, the media and bloggers may say otherwise, but in reality I have a lot of fans because I'm the only celebrity that actually takes time out to call them and talk to them. I don't think a lot of celebrities do that.

We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get.

I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things.

The impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion.

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.