I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened. - James McAvoy
Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be. - Sigmund Freud
I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it. - Jimmy Stewart
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. - Walter Bagehot
I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. - Max Beckmann
In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment. - Victoria de los Angeles
Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire. - Robert Iger
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. - Sammy Davis, Jr.
When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality. - Julie Taymor
Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy. - Fred Barnes
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
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. - Wallace Stevens
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. - Edward Sapir