Quotes About Reality

It's funny to be playing a mom. I mean, I'm not a mom in real life. I don't even have a dog.

One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.

Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.

All I know is real life. I don't know how to act. I don't know how to pretend.

In Mumbai, you have to act in real life, too.

I need to fill myself up with real life. That's kind of the well I draw from.

Real life doesn't exist on a network television comedy. They just don't let you travel down any road that is presumably 'dark.'

I wanted to do journalism, as I was an idealist. Then, in my second year of journalism, I realized that in real life, things don't work the way you expect them to. I realized that I could express my ideas better through films.

Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'

It's tough - and I'm not the first person to say this - but cliches exist because they actually happen in real life.

Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.

I think when real life interrupts fantasy, it's always shocking.

Every day, there is a person following me, taking pictures. It's bizarre because I'm just going to the gym or getting a smoothie. I don't have the time or energy to be constantly put together all the time, but that's real life.

In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time.

I'm like anyone; I make a lot of my assumptions about actors I don't know from what I read about them. And then I'll find those judgments are often completely confounded when I meet them in real life.

I'm not as extreme in real life as I am in the ring or on television.

Humor and comedy have always been the best way to deal with real life issues and just reality.

The watch everybody rap about, I have in real life.

Like, if I'm assessing someone's game and they can't shoot, they can't shoot. And they know they can't shoot. It's not like I'm making fun of them. I just keep it real, man.

Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.

I've played real people before, but I never knew them.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.

Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.