Quotes About Reality

If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.

I never thought I'd go back on 'Paradise' or 'The Bachelorette' or 'The Bachelor,' but I think I have learned in life that it is best to sit back and let things come your way, and take each situation on its own.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

The whole notion of an alternative truth is a paradox. How can you have an alternative to truth?

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it.

I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.

Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic.

I try to, pardon the expression, stay with my feet on the ground.

I think that in order to parent effectively, we are going to have to admit two things: We can't keep our children safe. We can't accept the fact that we can't keep our children safe.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

When you go to the park, there is no horizon - just Disneyland.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.