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Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

Jessica Lange

Life

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

Bob Kane

Truth

Myth

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.

Milla Jovovich

People

Myth

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

Diana Wynne Jones

Myth

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

Dustin Hoffman

Fantasy

Myth

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

Alma Guillermoprieto

Myth

Want

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.