Quotes About Reality

I think a lot of times people who jump from one movie to another don't enjoy their private life. It's a great way to escape reality. But I enjoy my life.

I think a lot of people think of NASCAR drivers as living the private life, the luxurious life. But I don't.

I definitely think people think celebrities have it easy. I think they have it twice as hard as someone going to a nine-to-five sitting in an office because they can keep their private life to themselves.

I am not necessarily a private person, but I am Charlotte Flair on camera, and that is playing a character.

What I believe about race is that race is not real. It's not a biological reality. It's a hierarchical system that was created to leverage power and privilege between different groups of people.

Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.

I have the fear of losing everything. At times, I get these reality checks which make me aware of what a privileged life I lead.

When I wrote 'PG-13,' I had just won 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' all my nightmares had come true, and I was a brat. I was a privileged brat overnight.

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.

Apparently I'm not a pro cyclist.

Most of us think that we are 'better than average' in most things. We are also 'miscalibrated,' meaning that our sense of the probability of events doesn't line up with reality. When we say we are sure about a certain fact, for example, we may well be right only half the time.

In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.

Pretty girls have problems too.

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

You can't un-have an experience. You can deny the experience; you can process it and try to get through it, but you can't change the fact that it happened to you.

Because all the thought processes are limited, they are conditioned, and the thought does not touch directly with the reality, the truth; thoughts only grasps at the image of the truth.

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

There's no question 'Amazing Race' is a beautifully produced show.

Housewives' is real, yes. We say what we're thinking at the time. But filming our real lives is a huge production that takes a long time. Sometimes you have to sit there for hours and hours while the show is being produced.

If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar and has lots of money and lots of power. That's not what a producer is and, if it ever was what a producer was, it certainly hasn't been for a long time.

Real movie producers aren't this nice.

On 'R&B Divas,' there were times when we wanted to just sit and laugh and the producers created drama.

The only power I have, in reality, is to keep producing good performances.