Unreal Quotes

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(on James Cagney) No one was more unreal and stylized, yet there is no moment when he was not true.

- Orson Welles

(On Hollywood) "The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don`t smell. The fruit is unreal, it doesn`t taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy nightmarish set, built up in the desert."

- Ethel Barrymore

Drew: I`ve never really understood how I should feel or behave in a relationship... I didn`t have the kind of childhood or family life that would have given me any perspective on what a happy home life or relationship would feel like. My father was literally out of his mind and my mother was more like a friend than a real mom to me. She would take me out to clubs and I wound up feeling like part of this very unreal kind of world, although that was the only world I ever knew growing up.

- Drew Barrymore

"I never say never about a lot of things. Whatever you want, then more power to you. If someone feels they have to live up to a certain image, then I can kind of understand that pressure because I`m considered to be one of those images, and I know how unreal they are."

- Kylie Minogue

I couldn`t believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.

- Christopher Plummer

You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.

- Kim Basinger

(On witnessing 9-11) "I left a meeting right after they hit the World Trade Center. I went to my apartment, which looks south, and I watched it out my window. I could see the line of fire across the North Tower. I had my binoculars and a video camera - - though I didn`t want to video it. I saw a few people jump. Then I saw the South Tower go. It was so unreal, I had to confirm it by immediately looking at the television screen. CNN was on. That was the only way to make it real. Like my son said, `It was like watching the moon fall.`"

- Robert De Niro

It`s something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it`s incredibly unreal and it`s all about the action, and just explosions.

- Rosamund Pike

I keep hearing that our films are escapist and unreal but I find our films the most real in the world. We don`t have people going up in a rocket and single-handedly blowing up a meteor. We don`t have a president on Air Force One saving the world or things coming out of people`s stomachs. Our fantasies and escapism are real. It`s just people singing and dancing in the street. If England had won the World Cup you would have seen people singing and dancing like that.

- Shah Rukh Khan

The criminal and the soldier at least have the virtue of being against something or for something in a world where many people have learned to accept a kind of grey nothingness, to strike an unreal series of poses in order to be considered normal.... It`s difficult to say who is engaged in the greater conspiracy - the criminal, the soldier, or us.

- Stanley Kubrick

I have no problems with the fact that people recognize me, I`m very glad about it, but to be a movie star is kind of unreal for me.

- Olivier Martinez

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

- Andrew Cohen

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

- Harold Pinter

I think there`s a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I`ve felt it.

- Christopher Nolan

(On using CGI in Batman Begins) "I think there`s a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal, I know I`ve felt it. The demand we put on ourselves was to be as spectacular as possible, but not depend on computer graphics to do it."

- Christopher Nolan

I couldn`t tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I`d touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

- Maya Angelou

In America, you watch TV and think that`s totally unreal, then you step outside and it`s just the same.

- Joan Armatrading

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.

- Tracey Ullman

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. There`s no life without humor. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable."

- Rufus Wainwright

It`s just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts.

- Gary Allen

The best part of marriage, for me, is to know you have a life partner who loves you no matter what. That is such an unreal feeling ... We always say we`re so lucky we found each other.

- Christina Lee

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

- Simon Raven

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

- Janet Frame

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

- Alexander Alexeyev

Language is political. That`s why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that`s why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

- Allen Floyd

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

- Amanda Diamond

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

- Amanda Milburn

Ben was great. The energy he played with for 56 minutes was unreal.

- Angela Wiczek

I talked to my uncle in Florida on the phone and I told him I wanted to teach. He said to get into it slowly. So I got into it slowly. I read so many books, it`s unreal.

- Anne M. Mulcahy

And he`s just so patient. He never sees Douglas as in his Terrible Twos. He just says, `Wow, he`s talking so much.` He`s amazingly patient and gentle with his children. He`s just unreal. He does everything.

- Ary Goldberger

When they said it was going to be a direct hit, people started to panic, ... The destruction was unreal. It pulled 60-foot trees out of the ground like they were nothing and snapped them like twigs.

- Atsushi Takeda

Once they were in the hospital, they would break down. They had held it in, but they wanted to tell their stories. It was unreal what they went through.

- Barbara Sharpe

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we`ll need a new definition.

- Alvin Toffler