Top 25 Fictitious Quotes

I’m passionate about the American Dream because it’s not a fictitious thing for me. It’s real for me.

If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

I wrote a novel called ‘Blonde,’ which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth – that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture.

Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don’t want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.

I said to myself, ‘What show could I be on that makes sense?’ And with ‘Parks and Rec’ being in Pawnee, like a fictitious city in Indiana, I said ‘that really makes sense.’

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Have you ever been married? Had that thing of someone calling you by a name not your own? It’s unsettling. It’s like a fictitious person.

My characters aren’t chess pieces. I don’t move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn’t counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.

Having to think so much about fictitious relationships that work or don’t work, and with each relationship between characters managing to do one or other of those in its own peculiar way, I spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, real and imagined.

We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.

I’ve made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I’ve spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious – we all love the guys in black.

If the idea of separate human races is a mistake to begin with, then monoracial forms of identification are fictitious and counterproductive.

I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction.

I like to take fictitious characters and circumstances and wedge them into a real world.

To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature… It’s extraordinarily fascinating.

Everyone takes pause at 40. It’s the age you have to assess everything in your life. It’s the fictitious marker that’s always coming up when you’re young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

Great pictures can’t be entirely fictitious.

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

With the crime novels, it’s delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It’s like having a fictitious family.

But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors.