Reality Quotes

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

I love all reality TV - Strictly, 'The X Factor.' I really don't see why people are so snobby about it.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.

I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

Reality is always extraordinary.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.