89 Movie Quotes about Reality (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

Memorable quotes about reality, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

41 We find ourselves looking at the mirror rather than looking into and through the mirror. When we do that, we can finally see the reality of how beautiful we are.

Patrick Swayze as Jim Cunningham in Donnie Darko

42 It hurt me to wake up and see my beautiful black people suffer, victimized by the oppressive, harsh realities of the hood.

Shawn Wayans as Ashtray in Don't Be a Menace

43 People spend their lives building castles in the air and yet they never try to make 'em realities.

Fay Wray as Alice in You Can't Take It with You (1939)

44 It's real. -What? -Uh, this is real.

Steve Martin as Lucky Day in Three Amigos

45 Symbolic of his struggle against reality.

John Cleese in Monty Python's Life of Brian

46 They're pretending, Truman. Do you understand? Everybody's pretending.

Natascha McElhone as Lauren Garland in The Truman Show

47 I have given Truman a chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in, is the sick place. Seahaven is the way the world should be.

Ed Harris as Christof in The Truman Show

48 Was nothing real? -You were real. That's what made you so good to watch.

Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank; Jim Carrey as Christof; Ed Harris as Christof in The Truman Show

49 You've got nothing to tell me 'cause it's not real. Only you and me, that's real.

Sterling Hayden as Johnny Guitar Logan in Johnny Guitar (1954)

50 Aren't you drinking? I don't drink. -Not ever? -I'm quite content with reality. I have no need for escape.

Claudia Cardinale as Princess Dala; David Niven as Sir Charles Lytton in The Pink Panther (1963)