Quotes About Reality

In a way I guess I'd be a bad judge of what it was like because it just seemed perfectly normal to me.

We want things to go perfectly, so we naturally tell ourselves that we'll get started once the conditions are right or once we have our bearings, when, really, it would be better to focus on making do with how things actually are.

I'm such a perfectionist and I want to do everything right, kick every goal, do everything perfectly, but that is not reality.

It's not that I was crazy. It's just that I was sad at times because the world was sad at times. When I would perform, it wasn't sad anymore.

I can imagine Dad joking about how hard it'd be to get an actor to give back when it's hard enough to ask them to give a good performance.

As actors, we are expected to come up with an exaggerated performance, which is far from reality.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations.

Doing a show like 'Dancing On Ice,' if you are not a performer, it's a bizarre world to go into.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

As a performer you often feel that you're the child and everyone else is a grown-up.

As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done.

I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally.

When we started with 'Big Brother' and created the reality genre, no one could ever foresee that there was so much space in the genre that it could deliver so many formats. There will be periods where there is not enough new stuff to keep the genre alive. But it will never die.

I'm a human, we're going to go through hard times and hard periods of our life, it's not going to be an easy ride all the time. That's what we forget. On social media, it seems that way that living are living these idyllic lives and it's not. There's going to be bumps in the road, that's life.

The rock n' roll lifestyle did have its perks, but it wasn't all limos and parties in the early days.

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

It's the easiest thing in the world to assume that what seems so obvious at one moment in time is a hard, perpetual fact of life.

I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one.

The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.

You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you're looking at a very long and lonely old age.