Quotes About Reality

When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.

A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.

Music as a business is a dirty thing.

So okay, the world through my eyes, what is that world? Well, I see a lot of dirty stuff, and I see a lot of dumb stuff.

One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.

I seem to disappoint people a bit. They want the full regalia - but I don't walk around in a corset the whole time.

Often I've met people who are famous, and as you get to know them, they disappoint you.

The more celebrities I meet, the more disappointed I get in celebrity culture.

When I go shopping, most of the time I'm disappointed.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.

My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.

I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open to reality.

Usually, the 24-hour, high-maintenance celebrity lifestyle can disconnect people from reality.

I think there is sort of a disconnect in this country between people that served in the military, understand the culture of it and what it is, and the people who only know what they see on the news and read - and they don't really get a feel for the culture.

When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

In this day and age, technology has overtaken our lives and we are disconnected from reality.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty.

There are many movies which come with an attitude of black and white. I am good and you are bad. And there are many movies that are also trying to see the reality as it is or to discover what really is behind the character or events.

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.

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