Quotes About Reflection

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.

Did you think I was immortal?

Sometimes I like [being famous], sometimes I don't. I've always been a people watcher. I like to go to malls and just sit, and I can't do that very easily anymore.

I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.

Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.

Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.