quotes about Facing Reality

“All men desire to be immortal.”

“Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.”

“What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.”

“The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.”

Source : "Theodore Zeldin - historian, philosopher". History Today, July 1999.

“Honestly, it was pretty challenging working with a talking raccoon.”

“One thing I've learned as an actor as well as a producer is to trust my own instinct. When I first started acting I would sometimes have ideas about certain things, whether it's a scene, or a character or certain dialogue, that wouldn't be followed. I was never in a position to have the power to press the matter. Sometimes it wasn't even about my character. But I'd watch the movie afterwards and think I was right.”

“Coming from bad results, you have more tension and you get more into the game, maybe. You never know which is best. I prefer to come from good results. You have more confidence and you believe you are doing things well. But in football everything can change very quickly.”

“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.”

“It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse- our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization.”

“I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.”