Quotes About Reality

You can't grasp the wonderful and keep your feet on the ground.

Trying to get prosperity through seed of faith is running after shadows

Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and the temporal.

I think it's very troubling to see the reality of where the American political establishment is going - into this big tent, which is one happy Demo-Republican family.

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal.

The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.

A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief."

Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.

There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

My job is — I make socks. That's all I do. I don't necessarily care about the show. I would rather film this — me doing what I do — than being around my family.

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

Here's the weird thing about the Murdoch family; They believe what they read in the papers.

I credit my mom Debbie for creating a solid family base, ... She gave me a strong sense of reality so I could avoid falling into the normal pitfalls of child actors.

No family is perfect, and that's true. None of us are.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.