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Quotes About Reality

The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.
~ Amy Bloom
I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.
~ Mary Gaitskill
I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.
~ Kristin Cavallari
It was so emotional to step onto the Millennium Falcon set because that was the play set we all had when we were kids. Suddenly, you were standing in the real thing. There's this rush of unreality about it.
~ Rian Johnson
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
~ Antonia Fraser
Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?
~ Art Bell
I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.
~ Damien Hirst
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is not a computer generated image, like you see on TV or some movie in Hollywood - this is the real thing a guy built, a rocket he's sitting in it and he can be dead in 10 seconds.
~ Mike Hughes
There's nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.
~ George Pelecanos
I knew the coronavirus was a real thing, but it really hit home when my aunt died, and it was really hard to watch my mom go through that with her sister.
~ Sunisa Lee
Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.
~ Stephen Hawking
I do all that TV stuff, and it's not real work.
~ Guy Martin
When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.
~ Faran Tahir
I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.
~ Michael Haneke
I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists that is different from your day-to-day reality.
~ Ronald D. Moore
I didn't want to be the 40-year-old still on MTV doing 'Real World.' I loved the show. I loved the people on it, but I had a different set of goals.
~ The Miz
Bigg Boss' is kind of a real world and now I've figured out a way to deal with things in the outside world in a better way.
~ Hiten Tejwani
I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.
~ Daria Werbowy
I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise I'm not as young as I thought I was.
~ Hugh Grant
hooting for 'Savdhaan India' in Mathura made me realise that no matter what place you come from be it a holy city, crime still prevails.
~ Siddharth Shukla
I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
~ Galen Rowell
People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.
~ Gloria Gaynor
When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.
~ Siddhartha Mukherjee