Quotes About Reality

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.

When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.

What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.

Life isn't fair. In never was and never will be.

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.

He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

My time in Moscowmade a man of memade me an artistthere was a reality and a brutality of life that I think was very important, as a young American, for me to see.

Sometimes it's hard to face your own...life.

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

Life is not confined to a four inch screen.

Movies are different from real life.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

I tend to think in dramatic terms. In life, there may be an actual drama, but it would be the fictionalized, imagined drama that engaged me.

Adam Sandler is a really funny guy in real life. Separate from all of the movies, that is a funny man.

The balanced life is a goal, but for us it is mostly a myth.

Unless you believe in reincarnation, this is your one shot.

It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.