Quotes About Realism

I have no time for perfection.

For any character, male or female, I think it's important to have... it's cliche to say a flawed character, but to really think about the good and the bad and make sure that both are present, and it doesn't just become a glossed over icon of perfection.

I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

There's this idea that you can have it all, but in my opinion, you can't - not if you're a perfectionist.

Opowie?? o m?odo?ci W?adys?awa Gomu?ki przypomina socrealistyczn? nowelk?. Bieda a? piszczy i z tej biedy rodzi si? proletariacka ?wiadomo??.

This emptiness, it turned out, was a revolutionary discovery, full of possibilities to free me from my lifelong blind faith in realism, which suddenly seemed so naïve and simpleminded.

We need to concentrate on reality, not what could have been.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

I now know that if you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist, and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

Mr White and Mr Pink have a very ungraceful and realistic fight. They go at each other like a couple of alley cats.

Pragmatism was a sword that cut through such knots; an action was to be judged by its consequences alone.

I'm not stupid, romantic, or a busy Russian novelist.

Well sure, who doesn't need a boyfriend? but realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by. At least a quality one.

I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

Something about not waiting for the laugh of a laugh track allows you to take lines that otherwise might be seen as just direct jokes, and make them seem realistic.

I think it's ridiculous when a character wakes up in the morning with lipstick and foundation and contour and fake eyelashes and hair done.

I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate.

When you walk into my classroom, I'm going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that's the only way to prepare you for the real world.

I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself.

Bill Haskell was real.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

I hate it when you see in films people with their anoraks flapping open in a blizzard. They'd be dead in a couple of minutes. It's got to be real. It's got to work.