Best Surreal Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 8

“All this stuff is kind of surreal to me - Ididn't think I'd be in the league or none of that. It was making it to college. That's about it.”

Thinking Kind Stuff College Basketball League Surreal

Author:Kevin Durant

“The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'”

“Everyone just screams and screams and screams. I have accepted it as real now, but it still feels surreal.”

Feels Stills Real Fame Accepted Scream Surreal

Author:Robert Pattinson

“Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?”

Knows Believe Humans Mean Ends Fun Stuff My Own Human Beings Fame Grateful Presses Don't Believe Release The End Of The Day Do You Know Surreal Very Cool Press Release

Author:Tom Hardy

“I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal”

People Thinking Happens Winning Grows Growing Up Tvs Fancy Oscars Surreal

Author:Jennifer Connelly

“I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.”

Film Powerful Decades Cinema Frightening Surreal Unprecedented

Author:Werner Herzog

“I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Forever Lists Bizarre Surreal Buckets Vogue Bucket List

Author:Lily Collins

“Criticism is a surreal state, like a good drug gone bad. When it's bad you wish it would stop, and when it's good, you can't get enough.”

States Enough Wish Gone Drug Criticism Surreal

Author:Gale Harold

“Blackouts can be fun if approached with the right mindset. You just can't sweat the fact that you've lost a small portion of your life for all eternity. Occasionally, little bubbles of memory will float up like surreal Mylar party balloons at unexpected times throughout the net day and start piecing together a colorful, if incomplete, version of reality.”

Source: I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir

“Before I was cast on The Surreal Life my knowledge of Christopher Knight was pretty much he was on The Brady Bunch and I hated The Brady Bunch.”

Casts Real Life Bunch Hated Knights Surreal Brady Brady Bunch

Author:Adrianne Curry

“My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary.”

Ifs Reality Wonder Vision Failing Seeing Habit Ordinary Aim Fantastic Fallen Dimensions Surreal

Author:Brassai

“I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'”

Thinking Knows Want Persons Sometimes Levels Hell Middle Fame International Clubs Surreal

Author:Kevin Costner

“To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.”

Mind Mean Remembrance Surreal Surrealism Surrealist

Author:Rene Magritte

“Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal.”

Littles Persons Stories Kids Stuff Myth Unconscious Little Kid Surreal

Author:David Foster Wallace

“When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure, I wanted to make a living. I certainly never expected to become rich, certainly not this rich. I mean, rich does not even describe this. This is surreal. And it has nothing to do with money. I mean, you buy clothes with money, and cars. But I really wanted to work with people I enjoyed working with, who I admired and liked.”

People Inspirational Mean Doe Wanted Enjoy Goal Rich Environment Car Clothes Expected Enjoyed Primaries Surreal Oracles Become Rich

Author:Larry Ellison

“In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.”

People Lasts America Week Killing Innocent Justify Justified Surreal

Author:John Pilger

“I appreciate the Surreal Life. I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldnt have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.”

People Ifs Heart Shows Found Pleasure Support My Heart Appreciate Meetings Real Life Surreal Positive Experiences Really Positive New Family

Author:Vince Neil

“I have these surreal moments where I’m like ‘I’m pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal’s baby’ and ‘I’m telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.’ But you’re acting, so the focus is on the work.”

Moments Sex Acting Focus Baby Smell Pregnant Surreal Jake Surreal Moments

Author:Sarah Gadon

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”

Vision Photography Destructive Surreal Surrealism Shackles Surrealist

Author:Salvador Dali

“Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.”

Trying Use Purpose Classic Museums Stubborn Attempting Surreal Surrealism Subversion

Book:The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

Source: The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

“The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.”

Dream Surreal Surrealism

Author:Graham Joyce

“In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.”

Stories Father Magic Son Skins Fantastic Surreal Father And Son Things You Love Whimsy

Author:Danny DeVito

“I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far the most surreal moment.”

Thinking Moments Father Expectations Standing Surreal January Iowa Surreal Moments

Author:Vanessa Kerry

“I came home one day from school after being chased by kids singing “Yellow Submarine”, and I didn't understand why. It just seemed surreal: why are they singing that song to me? I came home and I freaked out on my dad: 'Why didn't you tell me you were in The Beatles?' And he said, 'Oh, sorry. Probably should have told you that.'”

Should Said Home Kids School Song Dad One Day Singing Should Have Sorry My Dad Yellow Surreal Submarines

Author:Dhani Harrison

“Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.”

Giving Real Birth Lucky Pregnancy Surreal Amazing Things Most Amazing Giving Birth

Author:Ashlee Simpson

“The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and movements - all combine to create dynamic situations that provide the photographer with limitless choices of when to push the button. By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.”

People May Real Choices Situation Environment Subjects Movement Expression Ordinary Flow Extraordinary Photographer Setting Settings Buttons Precise Limitless Surreal Intersections

Author:Constantine Manos

“I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.”

Interest Share Strange Unusual Surreal

Author:Peter Greenaway

“I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night”

World Looks Dream Night Colour Every Night Surreal Dream World

Author:John Lennon

“Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.”

Kind Film Creating Surreal Amusing Creating Something Film Set

Author:Hugo Weaving

“I'm finally able to tell you... that I will be playing Belle in Disney's new live-action Beauty and the Beast! It was such a big part of my growing up, it almost feels surreal that I'll get to dance to 'Be Our Guest' and sing 'Something There'. My six year old self is on the ceiling - heart bursting. Time to start some singing lessons. I can't wait for you to see it.”

“So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to die today!' with our music playing - that was the last thing on my mind when I wrote the song.”

Thinking Mind Littles Today Lasts Song Dies Good Things Scream Surreal Last Song Things On My Mind

Author:Jon Crosby

“Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.”

Enough Universe Credit Surreal

Author:Ezra Koenig

“Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in the hands of demons with suspect motives, betrayed by her own kind, stranded in the world of Man—21st century St. Petersburg, Russia, to be exact. Weaving startling visuals with compelling characters, Kindred reveals parallels in the two worlds that are ‘neither haphazard chance nor calculated design.’ It’s a dizzying, vibrant read.”

“When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to step outside yourself for a minute and think, 'This is surreal.' But I try not to get too bogged down in that.”

People Thinking Trying Film Bits Steps Crazy Minutes Surreal

Author:Jai Courtney

“I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.”

People Writing Trying Book Real Courses Style Prose Abandon Poetic Realistic Realism Surreal Back And Forth Drunkards

Author:Marguerite Young

“My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.”

Wells Sometimes Known Records Fields Friends Dad Direct Raised My Dad Wit Our Family Sense Of Humor Family And Friends Well Known Surreal Quick Wit

Author:Tony Visconti

“The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.”

Truth Is West Iraq Campaigns Surreal Perversion Wmd

Author:Oliver Stone

“To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business, the American dream, told by a chorus of Americans locked just outside of that dream, outside of the United States, relegated to expatriate status on the shores of Haiti. Melo paints a version of Haiti that's an interior landscape perhaps even more than an externalized place. This Haiti is a plan, a memory, a morphine-drip fueled dream out to bond its inhabitants forever.”

“When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.”

Thinking Moments Dream Kids Together Winning Seeing Yeah Lifts Shocked Surreal Trophies Wimbledon Wildest Dreams

Author:Roger Federer

“At my first Golden Globes, I met people I was very much enamored by: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was surreal to see them in person.”

People Firsts Persons Mets Golden Globes Surreal Brad Enamored

Author:Jesse Tyler Ferguson

“Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal.”

Hands Remember Surreal Flattering

Author:Will Ferrell

“When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal.”

Thinking Stills Kids Used Watches Cousin Surreal Hardy Laurels My Cousin Extremely Funny Laurel And Hardy

Author:David Chase

“The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing is wrong too. Then smudging can help make the painting invincible, surreal, more enigmatic - that's how easy it is.”

Art Whole Helping Seems Easy Bits Painting Details Technique Surreal Invincible Enigmatic

Author:Gerhard Richter

“I was joking the other day about how my real life feels like a TV show, and my TV life feels real - because, to be on Thursday nights on NBC, which is what I grew up with, has been such a big part of inspiring me. To be part of that tradition is really completely surreal, and I'm so grateful.”

Feels Has Beens Real Shows Bigs Night Tvs Grew Grew Up Tradition Grateful Real Life Tv Shows Surreal Thursday Nbc So Grateful Thursday Night

Author:Whitney Cummings

“The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.”

Kind Important Car Normal Red Important Things Carpet Surreal Red Carpet Normality

Author:Samantha Barks

“My fiance and I had a few problems working through some of the things that he saw me say and do on the 'Surreal Life.' Considering the company that I was in, Ron Jeremy and Trishelle from 'The Real World,' I think I was pretty tame.”

Thinking World Real Problem Company Saws Real Life Real World Considering Surreal Fiance My Fiance

Author:Traci Bingham

“I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me? A publicist who's been there eight times. Getting there as a filmmaker was a completely surreal, different, unexpected experience.”

Mean Different Prepared Eight Filmmaker Unexpected Surreal Publicists Sundance

Author:Ava DuVernay

“The whole trial seemed surreal.”

Whole Trials Surreal

Author:Bernhard Goetz

“When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.”

Persons Kids Responsible Tiny Changing Your Life Surreal

Author:Josh Gad

“Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.”

Ifs Want Firsts Kind Children Born Creativity Baby Periods Blessed Strings Pulling Surreal

Author:Seth Gabel

Surreal Quotes

Related topics

Surreal Quotes