Quotes About Reality

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

My life exists in an imagined reality.

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.

Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

No one escapes from life alive.

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.

Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live?

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.

I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.

Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.