Quotes About Reality

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.

The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.

In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.

Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.

My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.

You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.

Anybody that thinks hanging out with Snoop is fun, is cool, you're in for a rude awakening because he is the most down to earth, boring dude ever.

I'm not rich, though everybody thinks I am.

I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap.

Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer.

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case.

I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.

Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

We've become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think there's a thinner line between fantasy and normality. People spend much more time in their own heads now. There's so much to conform to, so many influences coming at you.