89 Movie Quotes about Reality (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

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.

71 I haven't thought about it. -I have. I don't deal in theories. I deal in realities.

John Hoyt as Sydney Stanton in When Worlds Collide (1951)

72 How can you do anything else? Only this is real. All else is half life. Dream. Only this.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

73 The soul is not an illusion. It is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away. It can be poisoned or made perfect.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

74 You need me! You need me badly. Because I'm your last contact with human reality.

William Holden as Max Schumacher in Network (1976)

75 Why do you smoke this _? So as to escape from reality? Me, I don't need this _. I am reality.

Tom Berenger as Sgt. Bob Barnes in Platoon

76 Real Estate and rocks, that's his game.

Quote from Paid in Full (2002)

77 And once he comes to terms with reality... he should drop the elf thing and move on with his life.

Will Ferrell as Buddy The Elf in Elf (2003)

78 And when reality came too close, when danger or desire threatened that illusion, he'd dress up, even to a cheap wig he bought.

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho (1960)

79 No. It's not a bluff. It's real.

Matthew Broderick as David Lightman in WarGames (1983)

80 A pretty plot for fairy tales, Sire. But in real life, oh, no. No! It was foredoomed to failure.

Helene Stanley as Cinderella in Cinderella (1950)