Quotes About Reality

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

We got such abuse on a daily basis. They were trying to harden us to the reality of the rock'n'roll world but how could we possibly know this wasn't the way it was supposed to be?

My body is covered with bruises from pinching myself on a daily basis.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

Football is an elective. It's a game. It's make-believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some made-up game.

I've never seen a single episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'

I can't dance and I can't sing too well.

I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.

I can't sing or dance.

I know I'm never going to be a professional ballroom dancer.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

Even if the CCP is willing to stick with 'one country, two systems' in principle, no one can say for certain whether Hong Kong's freedoms of speech and the press would survive in reality.

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That's a little disappointing. And it is amazing how things really get made. I always used to think that where there is smoke there is fire, and now I see stories pop up out of nowhere with no basis in reality.

Before I went on 'Gogglebox,' I could never have imagined how hard it is for women in the public eye. I thought celebrities lived in a different world, I took everything the tabloids printed as gospel, and I barely even used social media.

Journalists like to invent a person, and it's not necessarily the person that they're writing about. The image the tabloids try to create of me and Bob is very different from how we really are. They try to make us out to be mad jokers. But I wouldn't want to put journalists down. That's their job.

I think my life is often more interesting in the tabloids than it is in real life - or less; it depends. But I'm curious. I just try and see what they're going to make up next, and I try to just have fun with it and not take it all too seriously, because otherwise you can't function.

I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.

Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.

You can tell when someone on TV who's supposed to be struggling to pay back loans is clearly wearing a Gucci suit or tailored to perfection.

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Art must take reality by surprise.