#reality

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality. ↗

— Andy Kaufman

#deal #how #i #i do #other

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#conclusion #i #kind #more #movies

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#art #build #computer #computer science #doing

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#difficult #doing #enough #function #i

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#arousing #boy #chamber #day #dead

I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not a great film or a great play I'm doing, to know that you went for it. You had an experience that made you grow artistically and personally. What's really satisfying is knowing that you did a good job. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#being #did #doing #even #experience

'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality. ↗

— Anna Torv

#fringe #genre #go #immersed #once

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#fantasy #fearless #fears #had #half

Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along. ↗

— Jody Watley

#bolts #caring #eventually #get #getting

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#fiction #obscures #reality #reveals #truths