Quotes About Reality

Candidates matter. Campaigns matter. 'He can win' or 'She can't win' is up there with, 'I'm going to lose 10 pounds, win the lottery, and live forever.' Saying it does not make it so.

They say you look ten pounds heavier on TV, but it makes your beard look longer.

I don't worry about the camera adding pounds, I am who I am.

When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.

I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.

Too often, we take our construct of reality as an absolute, and what I'm trying to point out for most people is it's important for us to know what we don't know.

When an actor constructs reality, it has to be riveting and entertaining. There has to be an emotional connect with the audience.

What do people want? Contact. People want to be able to see you and touch you. Are you real?

I have not been following 'Bigg Boss' that much but after being on the show and being on the other side I am sure I would want to watch it and know all about the contestants.

In the NFL they talk about 'contracts,' but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that.

The business aspect of this sport is a contradiction to what it's really about, and that's knowing something for what it is and not just what it looks like.

When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.

As an actor, I need to convince the audience that the character that I'm playing is real, and the situation that this character is in is also real.

The more science learns, the more I'm convinced that God is real.

I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.

I am not a cop. Really. I've just been playing one on television so long that people get a little confused sometimes.

There are so many projects that I've written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was doing to the people who I was writing about, or they couldn't cope with it because their view of themselves was so far removed from reality.