Quotes About Reality

We're not the characters that we portray online, and even if we are, we're a 10-time version of ourselves. That's still not us. Most of the things we do, we wouldn't do in person.

On a film set, everything's done for you. You get to a stage where you can't even remember the last time you made yourself a sandwich. The crazy thing is that, as actors, we're trying to portray the human condition, but we're often not living in reality.

I wasn't a happy teacher, but I also wasn't an absolute psychopath like the teachers I portray on screen.

It's so fun because the Carmella you see on 'SmackDown Live' is so different to me. It's great to be able to portray this character in a way that I never would in real life.

People do things on Instagram and put on a front and try to live a life that they may not really want to live, or don't truly believe in. And that's the life that they portray. That's not the real them. We all have to be more aware of what is that's really happening inside. Are we really standing for what we believe in?

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.

We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction, when we see it portrayed, we believe it. We recognize it as part of our culture.

I've portrayed cops as heroes for far too long, I think.

I don't make movies for the masses. My interest lies in portraying reality, and it gives me great satisfaction.

'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.

When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.

Something 'Drag Race' is really good at is portraying us as artists but also human beings. And normal human beings don't know everything. They don't have all the answers.

I like to dream about Portugal, and it's less easy when you are there.

People in L.A. think I'm so posh. They think I live in 'Downton Abbey.'

I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.

People put me in this ditzy, posh and stuck-up category, so it's been nice the public have been able to see the real me.

They're not posing as being Jesus Christ all the time.

I just want to create a space in the heartland of India. I am hoping 'Bigg Boss' can help me do that in a positive manner.

The images that we see of Africa are so... that are so engrained in our minds are of this place that is terrible - like hell on earth. And that doesn't acknowledge the positive things - the many, many, many positive things - that people are doing.

Of course I wish for all positive reviews and all positive things, but that's not reality and no one's perfect.

It's very easy to imagine someone online in a positive way, but it's only when you sit down, with all five senses in play, that you can really tell, 'Do I find this person attractive?'

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.