Fictitious Quotes

But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn`t counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.

I`ve never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that`s the challenge.

Upon winning his Academy Award for Bowling for Columbine (2002): "On behalf of our producers, Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I`d like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to say that they`re here in solidarity with me because we like non-fiction. We like non-fiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it`s the fiction of duct tape or fiction of orange alerts, we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. (Interrupted by mingled boos and cheering) And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much."

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

That`s just fictitious. That`s got nothing to do with where I am at the moment.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.