Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.
Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
L.A. is big, although Hollywood's not as glamorous as I thought; it's kind of grungy.
Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.
The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.
When you start to live your dream, it's not quite what you thought it was because there is a lot of overwhelming stuff that comes on top of it, and you have to figure it all out.
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.
I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.
To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.
But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
Fancy tortures more people than does reality
Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.
Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.
Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.
Before you go through with an experience, think about what you expect it to feel like. Once you've experienced it, reflect on whether your expectations differed from reality.
Life is never quite like the brochure.
Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
A mobile home with a flat tire is a home.
What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like a really romantic idea of a poet, writer or musician - which isn't really true a lot of the time. I don't reckon you would know anything about me if I wasn't moderately hard-working.
