Quotes About Reality

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.

Without fail, the first question I am asked at any author event is, 'Are your books based on your real life?'

Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.

I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.

Autobiographies give you the picture of the person behind the image on screen, because that's never really you.

Just because I could model didn't automatically mean I could act.

When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie.

With 'Avatar,' you're beginning to see the need for less and less actors and less of an appreciation for live acting.

Let's just face it: The average girl is not 6-3. I look very average.

I'm only 5-foot-6, but people think I'm sort of a great big Viking woman. I'm not - I'm completely normal and average.

I'm an average person.

I realized that, for me, travel for work - I'm not speaking so much about travel for pleasure - had actually become a way of avoiding life.

Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.

I don't think anyone ever gets married thinking that they'll get a divorce.

I don't think anyone gets married thinking that they will get divorced.

Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

I assumed I'd never be divorced.

There's a bit of truth in everything I do, you know.

We were watching 'Madagascar' and Carmen asked me, she said, 'Is the zebra a boy or a girl?' and I said, 'He's a boy,' and she said 'How do you know?' and I said, 'Because I know him. I actually know all the actors that are doing the voices.' And she looks at me and she's like, 'You know a zebra? You know a talking zebra?'

'Doctor Who' rewrites your brain because at first when you watch it, you think, 'That doesn't make sense.'

I love documentary because it's alive.

If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.