Quotes About Reality

I grew up thinking that corporate America was my destination. Then I got there, and I was making the money I wanted to make, but I just wasn't happy.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment.

Some of these love stories can be destructive as examples of what it means to really love. To think that someone is your one and only, that you're fated to be with this person, is a really powerful, sexy fantasy - but it is a fantasy, at least in part.

I like to be in that space, the same middle-class man. Otherwise, you become completely detached from reality.

Legal arguments, particularly when they reach the highest court in the land, can be detached from daily life.

I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes.

One of the biggest pieces of advice I'd give you is: Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality. If you're in high school, there are definitely things being said about you. Don't let them determine who you are.

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

I never really saw my mom as Diana Ross. My mom was my mom.

I think for Diana, she came to the royal family thinking that it would be a family, that it would be exciting, because people would know who she was maybe. I know she was marrying a prince, but I think she genuinely thought that there would be a support system.

This is how dictatorships always behave: they deny reality; they deny crises.

We're all going to die.

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

No crash diets work. I have tried everything, believe me.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Growing up is mostly the process of having to acknowledge the differences between your world and the whole world.

If I'm making fun of race or making fun of the differences of us, it's just because it's a reality of the situation of the world. And, if you can't laugh at it, that's kind of a bummer.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

I would be involved in a show that was something like 'Run's House'... that's a different kind of show.

I'm living a very different life than the one I thought I'd be living.

Players live a different life. They've been blessed. They live in a bubble and they live in a world where they get everything really. They've become film stars.

I don't write a whole lot about one person that exists in reality; it's usually characteristics of different people that I combine into a character. I tend to think through and try and make characters behave in a natural way. I follow the character and think about what they would do, what decisions they would make.