Reality quotes

- Alan Swann: Now, all we have to do is get from here - to there.
- Benjy Stone: It won't work!
- Alan Swann: It worked perfectly well in "A Slight Case of Divorce"!
- Benjy Stone: That was a movie! This is real life!
- Alan Swann: What is the difference?

Peter O'Toole - Alan Swann
Mark Linn-Baker - Benjy Stone

“I prefer fact to fiction.”
Richard Attenborough

“That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.”
Marc Webb

“Thinking about the motion isn't being the motion.”
Malcom McDowell - Alberto Antonelli

“You know you're not really Peter Pan, don't you? This is only a dream. When you wake up, you'll just be Peter Banning - a cold, selfish man who drinks too much, is obsessed with success, and runs and hides from his wife and children!”

Dustin Hoffman - Captain Hook

“This world is just an illusion, Ginty, ol' girl. As long as we hold that thought dear they can't break us, they can't make us endure their reality, bleak and bloody as it is. Money, money, money, don't you buy into, Ginty. It'll bite you on the bottom.”
Colin Farrell - Travers Goff

“Did you ever wake up one morning and wonder what happened to your life? You know, I thought my life would be an adventure. All of a sudden, I'm a suburban dentist.”
Tim Allen - Doug Madsen

“- Joshua 'Josh' Leonard: I see why you like this video camera so much.
- Heather Donahue: You do?
- Joshua 'Josh' Leonard: It's not quite reality. It's like a totally filtered reality. It's like you can pretend everything's not quite the way it is.”
Joshua 'Josh' Leonard - Himself
Heather Donahue - Herself

- James T. Kirk: Bones, there's a... thing... out there.
- Dr. McCoy: Why is any object we don't understand always called "a thing"?
William Shatner - James T. Kirk
DeForest Kelley - Dr. McCoy

“For whatever it's worth, your imagination is so wild, reality's gonna be a breeze, if not a letdown.”
Owen Wilson - Nick Campbell

“- Sam: I watch your show, every week...
- Alex: This is not a show! Nobody is written!
- Sam: But what if it is, and someone has control on wether you live or die?”
Tiffany Mualem - Sam
David Carranza - Alex

“We all dream a lot. Some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel. But all that I say can be told another way, in the story of a boy whose dream came true. And it could be you.”
Maria Friedman - Narrator

“- Danny: You could be just a projection of my inner psyche materialized for my brain in order to keep me company.
- Flip: What about the cashmere sweater babes over the road, with their swishy little skirts and all? Would they be from your inner psyche or mine?
- Danny: Probably yours I reckon, Flip.”
Noah Taylor - Danny
Brett Stewart - Flip

“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.”
Man Ray

“Jack lives in the real world. You live in the kingdom of heaven. I'd managed to keep free of that real world but suddenly it's found me.”

Martin Landau - Judah Rosenthal

“We'll go somewhere faraway, to a special place, on a tropical island. A real one. Just come with me. I know we connected somehow, you know? I know we did. And you need me. And I need to be needed so bad. Just come with me. You know we can be together for real. Just run away with me.”

Christoph Waltz - Qohen Leth

“- Saito: Have you come to kill me? I've been waiting for someone...
- Cobb: Someone from a half remembered dream.
- Saito: Cobb? Impossible. We were young men together. I'm an old man.”
Ken Watanabe - Saito
Leonardo DiCaprio - Cobb

“You know what rebound is? That business of trying to get over one love by bouncing into love with somebody else? It's fine, except the rebound is rarely the real thing.”

Cecil Cunningham - Aunt Patsy

“- Melina: I can't believe it, it's like a dream. What's wrong?
- Douglas Quaid: I just had a terrible thought... what if this is a dream?
- Melina: Well, then, kiss me quick before you wake up!”
Rachel Ticotin - Melina
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Douglas Quaid

“- Wheeler: This may be a stupid question. The Get Out of Jail Free Card: Is that real?
- Beth: That's not a stupid question.
- Danny: It's real in the game of Monopoly.
- Wheeler: But Monopoly is based on true events.”
Seann William Scott - Wheeler
Elizabeth Banks - Beth
Paul Rudd - Danny

- Dr. Elizabeth "Beth" Halperin: Are you telling me that by Harry going into the sphere, he now has the power to manifest his dreams, his fantasies.
- Dr. Norman Goodman: Manifest! Manifest! He made it happen. It's not that different from a child. A child imagines something that believes it's real and it's not there, but with Harry, He not only... (continue)(continue reading)
Sharon Stone - Dr. Elizabeth "Beth" Halperin
Dustin Hoffman - Dr. Norman Goodman

- Will McLean: What's the Hole?
- Lieutenant Colonel "The Bear" Berrineau: They say that's where the Ten take you, if you've crossed the Institute in thought, word, or deed. They take you on a ride, and you go down the Hole. Deep into the bowels of the Earth. Into hellfire. And even if you came out alive, you'd wish you was dead.
- Will McLean:... (continue)(continue reading)
David Keith - Will McLean
Robert Prosky - Col. 'Bear' Berrineau

“I had a dream. I dreamt I was home. I've had that same dream hundreds of times before. This time, I wanted to find out if it's really true. Am I really home?”
Fredric March - Al Stephenson

“I'm seeing things! I swear to God, everywhere I look I'm seeing tits and ass. When I came in here, I swear to God, I thought I saw you kissing a nun. Oh, my God! You were kissing a nun!”

Josh Hartnett - Matt

“- Vulcan Computer: What was Kiri-Kin-Tha's first law of metaphysics?
- Spock: Nothing unreal exists.”
Leonard Nimoy - Spock