Quotes About Reality

People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.

You can Photoshop something, put it out, and everyone believes it.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.

Washington, D.C., puts enormous burdens on people who, at the end of the day, are just humans.

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything's fixed not in your favour.

Look at something like boxing. People know that some fights are fixed, but nobody looks at a boxing match and automatically assumes it's fake.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.

We're all flawed, and no one is perfect.

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

No marriage can be flawless and perfect.

What is interesting to me about watching a show about the 1% is the world in which the 1% exists, meaning the flaws within the 99% that allow the 1% to exist.

I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.

I know how limited and how fleeting fame is, so I just try not to get excited about it, honestly.

I don't understand why people take Beyonce so seriously. You don't feel like there's a living, breathing person. It's not flesh and blood. It's just flesh and flesh.

I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.

My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.

I don't believe in fairies floating around, and I don't believe in telepathy, but there are things I want to say that just simple real-life stories don't let me say.

Any time you see something out there floating around that's not really reality, it's better to just cease it and stop it.

You need to have your feet on the floor sometimes but you cannot take away the ambitions of the fans.

The reality is we are all about servicing people and helping them achieve their dream, follow their journey and define their own success. When that is 100% authentic that flows through everything we do and translates.