Reality Quotes

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.

The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

It's a good harsh reality, because my family keeps me very grounded.

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure.

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.

The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it.

A cause a day keeps reality away.

We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.