Quotes About Reality

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we have. Nobody has ever seen a thought. Nobody has ever seen a feeling. And yet thoughts and feelings are where we live our lives most immediately, and science cannot connect with that.

To call the coronavirus a great equaliser turned out to be the greatest falsification of our time.

What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.

Everything is not perfect in our world.

What the Americans want to see is life in their drama. Life of all sorts: hard lives, easy lives, or lives which, like most of ours, are a mixture of the two.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

I'm not out here trying putting on an act like I'm crazy. In my opinion, everyone else is crazy. They're the ones who put on an act for you, doing what they're told in front of the camera.

The outburst of sexual freedom in the '60s was bound to happen because the '50s were so oppressing. You had to live that way; women had to be like this - it was all locked into a false reality.

With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth.

From the outside, being an artist seems like a dream life, but there are much darker aspects to it.

Existing outside of irony is so hard.

But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that.

As an outsider, it appears that celebrities lead such a glamorous life but once you are a part of it, you realise the hard work hidden behind that glitz.

All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it's an illusory sense of control.

When you come in as the second overall pick, the last thing you want is for guys to think you believe you've made it. Because that's the farthest thing from the truth.

In reality, we can only talk about things that we already overcame in our minds.

It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that's how our little world works, but it just isn't so.

I'm never going to overestimate the clout of my job.

Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.

I think people have this sort of idea that 'Sex and the City' was this overnight sensation, and that can't be farther from the truth.

I thought I would be an overnight star when I had a hit record in Brazil with my first album - but things didn't work out quite like that.

A lot of people think they can become world stars overnight.