Quotes About Reality

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

The dream of reason produces monsters

Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.

He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real, for a moment at least, that long magic moment before we wake.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

Our root fantasy is that "I" am real and that it's possible for "me" to be happy.

There's a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.

We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.