Quotes About Reality

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.

You're never going to please 100 percent of women.

It's hard to please everyone, and I learnt quite early that that's never going to happen.

You can't please everyone... you win some you lose some!

What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true.

For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has to be grounded and very much in this world. Then, I get to play with all the consequences of this new thing.

I don't let it get to my head because there have been plenty of good juniors that haven't made it to the big stage.

I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.

I feel like plenty of people have normal-seeming families that, as they're growing up, feel awful. I'd rather have one that looks weird from the outside but felt really normal.

Nowadays, the actors who say that they get plenty of scripts everyday but don't have time to go through them are nothing but big liars. The reality is - they don't even have a single script in their hand!

I think that sometimes, romantic comedies have to be really broad, and that the plot of people falling in and out of love or whatever is not enough. 'Enough Said' had that stuff, but I wanted it to be fun and funny while also grounded in reality.

I don't believe that the world is that crazy that they have nothing to better to do with their time than send me emails and tell me these outlandish stories. So I've started to plot the communities that have come to me on a map.

I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.

I'm a max player. Don't get mad at me because I'm telling you what's real. One plus one is two, all day long, and it's never gonna change. And that's factorial.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

People sometimes complain and it can feel like they think we want to lose. We're not machines where one plus one is always two.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

I like to stay around grounded people, and plus, I'm working so much, I don't get out too much.

I loved Plymouth and my time there because it helped me get my life back on track and I started scoring goals. But when I went there, it's not a place you dream of playing. It's not the team you dream of playing for. And you know when you're there, if you don't score goals or play well you're going down there and down from Plymouth is not pretty.

In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.