Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Realism Quotes
IsolationRealismWork I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.
ArtistryCreativityDetailPerceptionRealism There's a depth to the look that you get with models that you just can't get with CGI. It's about the detail that you just wouldn't think to put in.
AcceptanceIndifferenceRealismResilienceStrength It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Creative VisionLife StagesRealismYouthful Ambition The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Character DevelopmentCreativityRealismWriting When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
CareerLimitationsRealismSelf-awareness I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.
PerseverancePreparationRealismResilienceStrategy You cannot just win every single game by three, four or five goals and then when you come into the last 16 playing a good team, 1-0 down, expect to turn it around easily. It's not always like that.
ArtCinemaImaginationRealismTechnology Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city.
AuthenticityBody ImageConfidenceRealismSelf-Acceptance My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.
AnxietyJob SecurityMindsetRealismSocial Hierarchy Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: 'Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don't you realize that?' They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn't want to enter their minds.
ForesightPreparednessRealism I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.
MortalityRealismSuffering I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.
ConsequenceCynicismDependenceHuman NatureRealism Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
IndependenceRealismResponsibilitySelf Reliance Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
InfluencePerspectiveRealism There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
AcceptancePatiencePracticalityRealismWisdom Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
AmbitionExplorationGeopoliticsRealismScience As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.
AcceptanceGrowthHopeRealismResilience Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.
AcceptanceHumorLimitationsRealism I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.
CredulityExaggerationRealismSkepticism When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
PatienceProgressRealism Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
Health ChallengesRealism I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
CriticismMoviesPhysicsRealismScience Fiction I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.
ChangeHistoryLegacyPerceptionRealism People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
AuthenticityCollageMixed MediaPrecisionRealism I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
