Quotes About Reality

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?

One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.

Bigg Boss' is a show where you cannot fake or act. And most of these television actors pretend to be the characters they play. I accept the audience doesnt know me, but they will, and I am sure they will fall in love with me too.

It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.

Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.

I don't hate anyone. I just see the evil some pretend doesn't exist.

One must be deliberately ignoring reality to pretend that our asylum process is not being abused.

You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.

If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.

I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things don't exist than to talk about them.

Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this thing, and I never really accepted this idea that I'm a film actor. That's what I do. I feel like I'm a theater actor that started doing films. Most people have never seen me in a play. They're fun, though.

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend that people don't write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn't the only way to do it. Once you're writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

I'm so damn lucky to make a living acting, but it's not that I love it, not all the time. If I couldn't act, I wouldn't die. I'm much more interested in the human aspect of life than the pretend.

I'm very honest about my food background; I've never tried to pretend like I was a chef.

I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face; I pretend that they're not there.

Most people try to isolate themselves and pretend like things are all good when a lot of times, that's not how it is.

Basically if you're trying to write films in England you might as well decide to hide for two years. It's just meetings with people who don't really have any money but pretend they do.

I will never pretend like I did not come from Bachelor Nation.

To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.