Quotes About Realism

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurion.

Do I seem to play characters that in the end don't get the girl? Maybe. But you don't always get the girl or the guy, and there has to be someone to play that.

It's something I'd find rather distracting in a historical piece, looking at characters that have obviously just gotten off their Ab Blaster. You see a piece set in the 1300s or the 1800s, and you've got characters who have perfect abs and are incredibly well-groomed, not a hair out of place, and it just doesn't make sense.

The cost estimate of the prospectus turned out to be a best possible outcome based on the unlikely assumption that everything would go according to plan with no delays, no changes in performance specifications, no management problems, no problems with contractual arrangements or new technologies or geology, no major conflicts, no political promises not kept, and so on.

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Penelope came to the conclusion that marrying someone when you're in love with them was perhaps not such a good idea, better to wait a few years (ten, twenty, thirty, never?) to see if you're still compatible after the passion has subsided and reality set in

I began to see the world the way it is, instead the way I wanted it to be.

There comes a time when you have to let go of the New Yorker fantasy in service of justing getting on with it [writing].

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

Realism, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seen by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

When I have a bird in my hand, I don't start looking for the bird in the bush

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.

The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.

I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!

When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?

Nothing about 'Brotherhood' is ever wrapped up in a nice package.

That's my favorite kind of television, where it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. It's like life. You deal with one thing in your life, 500 others rear their head.

To do a train wreck and make it look real on screen is tremendously skilful.

I believed in making it look real. I was probably hard to work with because I wanted it to make real, and I knew how to wrestle.

Johnny Valentine's the one who said, 'I can't make them believe that wrestling is real, but I can make them believe I'm real.' It would take him forever because he was just stinkingly boring for 30 minutes of the 40-minute match, but he would let people hit him as hard as they could, and he would hit people as hard as he could.

I think one of my biggest attributes as a person and a businessman in wrestling is I'm very self-aware. There's a reason why I like all of the negative comments on social media. It's because I'm not delusional about my skillset, about my consistency and what I have to offer.