Quotes About Reality

The climate is changing, and anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial.

I'm very good at denial.

I'm an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military.

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

Life is so beautiful, but there are all these scary things you can't deny.

Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.

Yeah, I get depressed. I think we all do.

Who wouldn't be depressed living in a society that can't agree on reality, let alone health-care policy?

You would think I'm mad or depressed all the time, but that's not the case at all.

I always have roles with a depressing childhood for some reason. I have a nice childhood, so I don't know why.

That's what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.

The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.

Obviously, you're a better writer at 31 then you are at 19. Hopefully, you're also a better human being and better at describing reality.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

You don't get what you deserve - it would be amazing if life worked out that way.

I got sick of being famous. It is not a desirable 'job.'

Having a wife and kids drove home the brutal reality of the slave system for me - the price it exacted on families. On the other hand, whenever I despair over our history, I am brought back to hope, the hope that things will get better, for my children.

Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.

If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.

In fact, I became popular in Kerala after I took part in a reality dance show and despite making my foray into films as an actress I make it a point to take part in stage shows whenever I find time.