As you get out and try to do things, you always find that in order to make an idea a reality, it goes through some changes. It doesn’t always come out exactly like you envisioned it. – Steve Forbert
So you might say, ‘Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?’ Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality – so the function of art is to make things – to show: ‘Hang on, this is real.’ – Simon McBurney
It’s a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that’s why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It’s therapeutic. – Stella Maeve
The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation. – Wilhelm Dilthey
Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise’s economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay. – Samora Machel
The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved – as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem – must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses. – Stanley Tucci
I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit – the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them. – Zilpha Keatley Snyder
We don’t just want to win the Super Bowl, we want to make a dynasty. I want to be a player who makes that a reality. – Shaun Alexander
I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor. – Sara Gilbert
The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That’s what we would call it. You’ve got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You’ve got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go ‘off the reservation, into Indian Country.’ – Winona LaDuke
Anybody who’s away from what’s normal is just kind of pushed aside as, ‘Oh, he’s crazy.’ But in reality, this world is crazy. It’s just chaos everywhere. It’s really hard to be part of this world, because it’s very possessed. And very egocentric. – Troy Polamalu
People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long. – Stephen Root
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. – Tom Waits
However, most of my part, I play a pediatrician, and most of my role had to do with being in another place, staying at the hospital and trying to save kids and stay until people could come. So, it was more based on reality. – Sela Ward
Over-the-top dance reality shows are hard for me to watch. The real drama in our world is much more emotional, personal, and extreme. There is manipulation and sneakiness. – Sarah Hay
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. – Walt Disney
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own. – Susan Sontag
In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you’re dead. You know, you’re out on the street corner. You think there’s no bus coming. You step out, you’re dead. – Teller
I didn’t want to find out the reality that if I wanted my dream, I had to lose weight. That’s a crushing dream for anybody… to change yourself to get your dream. Nobody should have to do that. – Serinda Swan
I’m not a prophet; I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived. – Wilbur Smith
I wasn’t at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality. – Terence Stamp
People want to be entertained when they watch dramas. ‘Mistresses’ has a mixture of escapism and reality. – Shelley Conn
It was never fun being in the Ramones, which is the saddest thing of all, cause it shoulda been fun. It was probably fun when we played Performance Studio, and maybe some of the early gigs at CBGB’s. But the Ramones were the type of group that had a bizarre mindset. Being in the band was so cut off from reality. – Tommy Ramone
The lives we live are a bit of a straight-hair vs. curly-hair thing. We often want what we don’t have. In reality, it’s not about better or worse; it’s just perception. – Simon Sinek
Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can’t choose the consequences of your choices. They’re preloaded. It’s a package deal. – Sean Covey