Victoria Jackson Quotes

It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.

I'm in my dream world.

Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - 'fear' for me stands for 'false evidence appearing real.' We create fantasy, and in certain ways that's wonderful because it allows people to escape. But it can suck people into wanting to achieve something that isn't real.

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I would rather be part of something that is entertaining than realistic.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.