I’m a confident guy. But it’s surreal to hear my name called in the same breath as Randy Moss, my favorite receiver. That’s the cool thing about having some success.
It’s always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.
It’s been some surreal moments, you know from performing at Buckingham Palace to having dinner with Stevie Wonder, it’s been an amazing ride.
It is quite surreal when you go to places up the north, like Inner Mongolia, and you are getting mobbed at the airport.
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.
Designing a collection with Aeropostale was completely surreal.
If a kid’s trying to be the next Danny Green, that’s weird for me. That’s surreal, humbling and hard to put in a thought process.
The first time I ever heard professional actors delivering lines that I wrote was completely surreal and was just a gigantic moment in my life. It was just a little bit mind-blowing and completely strange to have something that had been on my computer being said out loud.
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.
I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house.
If you have a surreal life like I do, you’ve got to have fun along the way.
Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn’t really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn’t interested in things like cause and effect or a linear narrative. It’s surreal, it’s absurd, it’s wordplay, it’s satirical, it’s analyzing itself, it’s funny, it’s an enormous challenge.
As he grew older, his material was just as relevant and just as exciting and the band’s just as killer… It seems surreal that there’s no more Tom Petty, in person.
I can’t do jokes. I’ve always come from left field and tried to subvert conventional comedy. I started as a rebellion against that – albeit a very soft and surreal rebellion. It’s escapist.
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.
A lot of the surreal writing that I love is really dreamlike. Like Murakami. He uses the real world, and it’s pretty recognizable, but its populated by these strange visitors, or it has these underground spaces. I was always really compelled by that.
Being the first-ever three-time ROH world champion is pretty surreal.
I know it’s become an ongoing thing about whether videogames are art, and I think there’s plenty of examples of things that use the form in a fascinating way. Things that are more surreal or artistic, like ‘Katamari Damacy’ or ‘Vib-Ribbon.’
I’ve gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it’s, like, surreal. It just lets you know how time flies, especially when you’re having fun. It seems like time keeps going by faster as I get older.
I write a kind of surreal fantasy, but they can’t put ‘surreal fantasy’ on a paperback.
One week a year, I go to Las Vegas with friends to play poker. We usually go to the Wynn. To play golf in the desert in the middle of the strip at the Wynn is one of the most surreal experiences you’ll have.
It’s surreal to know my dreams are coming true.
It’s the most surreal experience of my life, being 19 and just starting to grow up and having all this success.
I have surreal dreams, so much so that I can never make head nor tail of them.
‘Pierrot le Fou’ is something I keep coming back to. It’s so surreal but still really engaging – it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.
The truth is, pro wrestling is such an incredibly vast, incredibly surreal world. There’s no telling how many words could be written about the subject – especially when the subject involves WWE.
‘Teletubbies’ is a national institution, and it was a privilege to be asked to be their voice. It feels super surreal, but it does feel wonderful.
When my dad visited me while I was doing a play in New York City two years ago, I took him to see ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert.’ Now I’m going to his house. It’s surreal.
It’s a surreal experience filming promotion with Ryan Seacrest and meeting Top 40 pop artists.
You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.
And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: ‘What is that doing there?’
It’s all so surreal, and I’m living my dream. And you know, principal or not, I’m getting to dance all the roles that I’ve dreamed of doing.
It’s just surreal because I get to empower other little African-American girls around the world and say that you can be a superhero, and you rock, and you can conquer the world, and you are beautiful just the way you are, and your flaws are nothing, and you’re awesome.
When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn’t easy.
As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: ‘Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B.’
It was pretty surreal because The Allman Brothers’ ‘Eat A Peach’ and ‘Live At The Fillmore East’, and the Eric Clapton ‘Layla’ record was the music I grew up hearing all the time.
Serena’s arguably the best athlete of all time, so getting to know her was surreal.
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.
To work with anyone you admire and respect, and have for a very long time, is a surreal thing.
In the first place, it’s surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor Kitsch is doing it, or Salma Hayek. And then to see it loud and bright onscreen is a trip.
Playing Slams definitely gives you a surreal view of what can happen, and what you can be.
I try not to be one particular type of comedian – I try to be foolish, and silly, and surreal, and quite angry and sarcastic and dry.
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.
I post on Twitter regularly, and when I checked my followers, I saw that my own characters were following me. They sounded eerily like my characters would actually sound. It was a very surreal thing to see come to life digitally!
My life’s been surreal from start to finish.
We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.
Every day working for Rachel Zoe, Inc. is surreal for me. I have the amazing opportunity to be around beautiful clothes and smart and talented people. Whats not to love!?
I think that ‘Heroes’ really is about family. I mean, sure, it’s this surreal story, and it’s about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family.
We’re always aiming for storytelling that feels a bit surreal.
If there’s one thing that television doesn’t really do, and has never really done, is to tell a surreal story.
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.
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.
People tell me I’m their idol and a huge inspiration – that’s really surreal.
I think everyone practices their Oscars acceptance speech with a shampoo bottle, and I’ve done my fair share of them. It’s really surreal to be able to do it in real life.
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.
I think meeting someone like, meeting Sam Shepard, that was someone who was kind of important for me, because I’d read so much of his work and watched him as an actor since I was a kid, then being on set doing a scene with him and thinking, ‘This is really surreal.’
I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.
It’s not a matter of vanity; it’s a matter of sanity. I’ll never look forever young, but I’ll look as best as I possibly can; I’ll look surreal.
