Quotes About Reality

The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

A lot of people would think I have led this easy kind of charmed life, or maybe even a fairytale in some ways. But it has been anything but that.

Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.

Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.

It occurred to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.

We all have an expectancy of something, but who's to say it always goes that way? Nine times out of 10, life never goes that way.

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality.

Actually, I look the same in real life as I do in the movies.

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.

No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all.

It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.

How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?