- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality Quotes
What's real depends on where you're standing.
This set weighs reality against illusion, touching on digital-age facts that can't be hidden, the difference between a screen character and the actor playing tough, and why escapist fantasy still appeals. For adjacent emotional ground, see our Pain quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even on a large ensemble where their parts are relatively small - because having ten main characters obviously affects their screen time - the thing that attracts great actors is when there is that challenge to get some reality into something.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.
- Grenade
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers transform: they throw a hand grenade into the notion of reality that people carry around in their heads. That's very dangerous, very destructive, but not to do it means you are satisfied with the status quo - and that's a kind of danger as well, because a kind of violence is already being perpetuated.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.
- Nov 07, 2020
Perception's not reality.
- Nov 07, 2020
We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020