Rutger Hauer Quotes

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.

Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

The only real people are the people who never existed.

My life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

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

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

I'm an actor. I hate to blow everyone's illusions.

When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the same strength and power of the real ones, and the line between them is completely blurred.

I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with, and cry for people who do not, outside of the story, exist. There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

In my show I announce, 'People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.'

I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

There are two magic acts I want to pull off when I write. One is creating a feeling that when you're inside a book, you believe everything you're reading even when you know it's not true. And the second is an extension of that, which is you know it's not true, you know it's not real, but you believe it anyway. And it's that believing of the story that isn't real that attracted me to writing and storytelling in general.

So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.

You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal!