Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.

Acting is a dance between imagination and reality, and I savor every step

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape

So with truth – there is a sure minute when one can say, this is reality, and here I put a speck, a stop, and I go to something else. A judge needs to stop a consideration. Be that as it may, for a student of history, there will never be a conclusion to the past. It can continue endlessly and on.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be

If you’re going to deal with reality, you’re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an individual.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

Don’t be confused by my smile ‘Cause I ain’t ever been more for real

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

I stay away from the title of ‘role model.’ I want to be a more realistic role model, not a perfect Barbie role model.

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

Love, to be real, must always involve some self-sacrifice.

Reality doesn’t impress me

My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure

Let’s be honest – tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans.