Quotes About Reality

Don't argue that you can't find a job that pays enough to support yourself. You can. You just can't find a job that will support you in the style to which you have been accustomed.

The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

We grew up during the 'peace and love' of the 1960s, only to discover that there are wars everywhere, and love and romance is a con.

Everything isn't always going to be peaches and cream. If it is, then it's fake.

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of reality that is. I think partly it's based on some idea that comics are what everybody wants to read - and I don't think that's the case.

I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing 'cos all our lives are equally real, and it's just a matter of depicting them and talking about them.

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

See, every thing in show business is a lie. It ain't all it's cracked up to be. You are in situations where you are forced to think that you are better than everybody else because of the pedestal the fans place you on. It's a lie. This is just a job, a high-profile job. You have to keep that in perspective and not get caught up in the hype.

Coming out of the Olympic Games, I was the golden boy and I got put up on a pedestal. I got stuff handed to me.

Don't put celebrities up on this pedestal. We are human beings.

It's nice to be able to show how we are like in person and give a peek behind the curtain with 'Total Divas.' That's been my biggest feedback is how different than I am behind the scenes than I am onstage.

If you peek behind the curtain at any type of company, you'll see that things are far less organized than you'd expect.

It's always nice when people discover I'm a normal person and not, because of my appearance, a half-crazed lunatic who may stab them with a Bic pen.

You can't train a penguin to act. You kind of have to take what you get.

I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

People say they make movies to show what 'really happens.' But they only show what they choose to show.

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.