Quotes About Realism

I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.

Lord knows we've been guilty of getting too excited about a title reign only to see it last one or two fights.

It's not like I can say, 'I have signed for three years; now we'll win three straight titles.'

I work with tiny companies, so I don't really live in unicorn world, to be honest.

For me, my realism has stood me over 15 years, so the kind of films that I have done has garnered enough respect for me to be able to survive the industry.

My interest in theater really began in the '70s when American realism wasn't really in favor. I really dreaded going into a play that had a toaster that worked. I just didn't want to see that.

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

The standards of judgement must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

The weapon of choice for Jesus was the cross. The Lamb of Revelation slays with the sword that proceeds from his mouth. Christian realism compromises the way of the Lamb because true realism is a deep reality that sees God on the throne and the Lamb in its center.

Pinchas Lapide, toward the end of his book that develops what he calls a theo-politics of loving small steps, finds in these words of Jesus six pillars that can help each of us reshape our culture from hate toward love: (1) Jesus is a realist who knows a world of evil; (2) Jesus has a faith that humans can change; (3) Jesus humanizes haters and their hatred; (4) Jesus calls us to imitate God; (5) Jesus knows this is a battle to fight; and (6) this theo-politics moves in small steps:

The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don't mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.

Through traditional realism, the comics artist can portray the world without-- --and through the cartoon, the world within.

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. The very gunfire braces us and the atrocious confers a worth upon the effort which it calls forth to confront it.

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

Any time I'm on-screen it is realistic because I don't pull my punches or anything like that.

No one can have it all, at the same time. I've never seen that.

There are a lot of ideas I've had that I originally was quite taken with, but over time, I lost steam. They stay on my list, but between me and you, I'm probably never going to do them.

You can't predict tomorrow. And because you can't predict tomorrow, you have to be realistic with what you have today. It doesn't mean don't enjoy yourself but enjoy yourself at the right time.

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our job, and we are obligated to portray the characters in the most realistic way possible.

My characters are all "just people" - people you might know - and the things that happen are things that anybody might do if they lived on a freighter that spent most of its time in the Deep Dark.