Quotes About Reality

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.

I'm a normal girl from a normal background, I just happen to be in the public eye. My job is to be on TV and that's it.

It really irritates me when I see people in the public eye who pretend they do it all and I know they don't.

I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

American public policy is run on a myth.

Cops, more than firefighters, EMTs or other public safety employees, almost always get the first glance of the human condition at the worst, most lethal moments; nobody calls a cop with good news.

I never like the TV or movie Harvard characters. The fact of the matter is that most people who go to Harvard went to public schools and weren't in final clubs. I didn't even know that final clubs existed until I was a senior.

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

The industry is a difficult place to be in. It is not at all rosy. There are judgements being made. I don't like bad publicity, but that is part and parcel of it. However, I am grateful for whatever I have got from the industry.

Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well.

We act in so many roles to entertain people and they get accustomed to it. So even if we do something for society in real life, they think it's for publicity and are not always ready to accept us in that role.

I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and for the rest of my life I would be writing books and collecting royalties. Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published.

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.

I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I wasn't going to make a living at it.

We didn't like to do the traditional prank show where we felt bad for people having jokes pulled on them.

If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.

Fighting causes you to face life head on, because you could end up seriously getting hurt, and you could hurt somebody else. It causes both people to face the reality that we are fragile beings, but it doesn't mean we can't enjoy ourselves in the process and punch each other in the face and have a good time.

Everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face.

I like acting very much because I don't get punched, and it's not real.

It's not fun to get punched in the face. It's hard, and there's no glory in it.