Quotes About Reality

I want to be really clear about something: I think we kind of fetishize the creative life. We have the vision of what it means to be an author, where you sit in your garret or looking out at your view and you give everything to your art and you commit fully to it. But the reality is that most of us have bills to pay.

With all comedy, you try to ground it in credibility and reality.

When I first started playing international cricket, people around me started telling me what was being said. And you're never as good as anybody says you are. I try to stay quite logical about things.

So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too.

I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

Being a reality star is very chaotic: it's a very dramatic job to do. I always 24/7 have to be on and ready for any type of criticism at all times.

You can't make everyone happy. You just do what you can, and that's it... you're always going to catch criticism no matter what you do.

It's only when you leave the rugby bubble that you understand that negative criticism is not personal, it's reality because we don't always get everything right.

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

I like laughing about cruel things because life is cruel.

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

My comedy is about, lift yourself. See reality. Change the reality if you don't like it. But if you can't, then deal with things as they are because crying about it isn't going to change anything.

I wanted to be a second baseman for the Chicago Cubs. Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day.

You know, I was not an attractive child - I never had a cute face.

I feel sort of really aware of how the... online cyber world has begun to take over reality.

The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.