Seth Godin Quotes

Movies are different from real life.

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

It seemed too glamorous to me to be an actress like in the movies.

Life is not always what we think it is.

People are disappointed that you aren't exactly who they thought you were, as opposed to somebody who's just walking around trying to get some laundry done.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Just because it's in a movie doesn't mean it's real.

You think about getting old, but when you get there, it's not what you thought it would be.

Life ain't the movies.

The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.