Judy Greer Quotes

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'

I hope that I'll be hot for a long time so I can make a lot of money, I can retire early, and just travel. Hopefully that will happen.

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.

I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry.

Most people think glamor is happiness.

Just because you are living the dream making millions of dollars doesn't mean you don't go through problems.

Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

You know how it is when you’re walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there’s one more step? I’m like that all the time.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness. Instead the world would prefer to enjoy the idea, against what it knows to be true, that wealth and fame do in fact insulate and protect against misery and it would rather we shut up if we are planning to indicate otherwise.

Let but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to project the image of Beauty before our eyes, and we imagine that we have recognised it, our hearts beat, and we will always remain half-persuaded that it was She, provided that the woman has vanished: it is only if we manage to overtake her that we realise our mistake.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

Some things look better inside of the store.

People think that they see, but they don't.

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.

It's not what you are in Hollywood - it's what people think you are.

One illusion is as good as another.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

You think the shadow is the substance.