Realism Quotes

“The sublime, the tragic, and the realistic are indissolubly connected.”

“I'm not a pessimist. I'm a realist. And a realist in today's world is a pessimist.”

“Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful man has been married to a woman who has been cheated on.”

“I don't think any of us know what is going to happen. I am not a pessimist. I am not an optimist. I am a realist, and I will wait and see what happens.”

“The reality is that we are going to have problems, and we are going to have catastrophes.”

“Optimism is just a lack of information.”

“It is the destiny of the <strong class="highlight">weakstrong> to be devoured by the strong.”

“It is the saints who are the true realists, for they see things as they are in the light of eternity.”

“If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.”

“I like to work with non-actors because they bring a certain reality to the screen.”

“I'm not a modernist. I'm not an abstract artist. I've always been a realist.”

“I think the best stories are the ones that are plausible.”

“It is the destiny of the <strong class="highlight">weakstrong> to be devoured by the strong.”

“What I've always found about going to a party is that it's never as good as you think it's going to be.”

“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.”

“I put in my comic strip what I read in the papers.”

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.”

“Hope for the best, but expect the worst.”

“The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”

“In our business... the one thing that will kill you quicker than a bullet is a dream.”