Authentic Experiences Quotes

I realize I have a lot of amazing opportunities, but I don't know how you can play a human being going through real human experiences without being able to walk down the street. If you can't live a real life, how do you play a real person? It always confuses me when actors work back-to-back-to-back with no break. If you live your life on a film set, how the hell can you relate to real people? You don't know what its like to not have people fussing over you all day, and that's not life - that's silly movies. I will always want to take breaks and I wouldn't be OK with losing that.

Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural things. It is more exciting to stand still than to dance. Silence is more eloquent than speech. Water is more stimulating than wine. Fresh air is more intoxicating than cigarette smoke. Sunlight is more subtle than electric light. The scent of grass is more luxurious than the most expensive perfume. The slow, simple observations of the peasant are more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit.

I've got re-addicted to normal people, which is the loveliest thing to write about.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

Tourists see, and travelers seek.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

Things that are present - whether it's a conversation with someone who is really grounded in the moment, a movie that feels authentic, or a moment in nature where you feel nothing but the present. It motivates me to truly ground myself, breathe, and push forward. Crashing waves.

I enjoy experiencing life. Being a celebrity can really stand in the way of that.

Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.

Whatever my life looks like, I want it to be real and big and full. I want when, if I get hit by a car, I want to know that I have deep and real friendships, people to visit me in the hospital.

I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.

I just like playing guys, normal dudes. That's the stuff that I really enjoy watching: when it feels grounded.

The best things in life cannot be willed into being.

I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey.

We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but I had also known what he meant. He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them. He meant wanting. He meant living.