Quotes About Reality

The real world is harsh.

The world is diverse, and it's important for us to reflect the real world.

I didn't really enter into the real world until I was probably at drama school.

I think politicians just need to get out in the real world.

The 'Real World Challenges' were amazing. However, Hollywood, back when I was on reality shows, did not like reality shows.

My mom did a good job making sure I worked for everything I got. Really, it just helped me realize the real world and how people who don't have everything have to work for stuff.

In the real world, it doesn't always go your way like it can on a television show.

I have to make an effort about things like going to the grocery store. That stuff reminds me that I don't live in the real world, and you know what? I'm thankful.

It's very powerful to shut down your computer and escape into the real world.

It's important to stay normal and live in the real world. I know this is where you find happiness.

I was in theater school playing Lady Macbeth and doing these great dramatic parts, and then I got out into the real world and was auditioning for commercials, and just not getting to do anything that felt remotely meaningful.

Where other people live in an artificial world, I feel I live in the real world. And nothing beats reality.

Since I started working at 15 and never went to college, I didn't know what it was like to be in the real world. I was in my bubble - until I got married, my life was either in a car, on the set, or on location.

It is a challenge to write in the real world once you've had the advantage of being able to create your own world.

We lost Chris Farley, John Belushi, James Gandolfini, and we need heavier-set people to represent the real world.

You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.

My favorite line to Phil is, 'You can say the right thing on TV, but why can't you do it in real life?'

I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business.

I think a lot of people who didn't know my work before 'The Sopranos' think I came from the Jersey Shore, like they picked us out of the mall and put us on television.

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.