It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier. – Ian Mckellen
Obviously, virtual reality is where I’ve placed my bet about the future and where the excitement is going. At this point, I could say it’s almost a lock. It’s going to be magical – it is magical – and great things are coming from that. Along the way, I was focused on the first-person shooters. I said we should go do something on mobile. – John Carmack
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it’s only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich. – Jose Saramago
I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up. – J. Michael Straczynski
I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you’re experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it’s a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be. – Joel Edgerton
I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can’t do that, you should leave them alone. – Irvine Welsh
When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That’s a little disappointing. And it is amazing how things really get made. I always used to think that where there is smoke there is fire, and now I see stories pop up out of nowhere with no basis in reality. – Jon Favreau
If I had a reality show, it would probably be called ‘Keeping Fit with Jesse Tyler Ferguson’ because then I’d be forced to hit the gym every day. – Jesse Tyler Ferguson
What is it but a cunningly devised scheme to take from one State and to give to another – to replenish the treasury of some of the States from the pockets of the people of the others; in reality, to make them support the governments and pay the debts of other States as well as their own? – John C. Calhoun
We are a species that must try to impose and find systems – systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality. – Jonah Goldberg
A comic book and a straight drama all have the same elements. If you’re playing tragedy, you have to be aware of the comedy; if you’re playing comedy, you have to be aware of the tragedy. If you’re playing comic book, you have to be aware of the reality. – Jeremy Irons
Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil. – Jane Velez-Mitchell
Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren’t happening. – Joyce Meyer
The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel’s existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state. – John Podhoretz
Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history. – John Shelby Spong
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. – Jean Piaget
A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art. – Julia Glass
As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn’t even list ‘homosexuality’ as a topic. – James McGreevey
Reality really is theater. There’s no other way to describe it. It’s all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic. – Joe Rogan
The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year. – Jane Fonda
My parents didn’t hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination. – Jello Biafra
When Jeff Sachs says every poor person should receive a free bed net, I agree – but in reality, many end up not receiving one. And I don’t live in a world of shoulds. – Jacqueline Novogratz
Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons. – John Polkinghorne