# Up With Carl

### Pixar’s real life movie inspiration

## Jimmy Durante would be proud of this guy’s _Schnozzola_

  
  
  
**_In Pixar’s 2009 movie “Up”, a 78 year old ex balloon salesman named Carl Fredricksen, with the elderly care orderlies at the door, decides he has nothing to lose and takes his home and his memories, made airworthy with many hundreds of helium balloons, on his first and perhaps last, adventure.  
  
QuotaBillsReality – what a concept! - Robin Williams  
  
Legitimate reality (realty) company. - Archie Bunker  
  
Reality is something you rise above. - Liza Minnelli  
  
A hallucination is a species of reality. - Terence McKenna  
  
Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover! - Homer Simpson  
  
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. - Jane Wagner  
  
Movie about nuns, starring Ingrid Bernstein - Archie Bunker  
  
In television blood is thicker than talent. - Gerald F Lieberman  
  
Ah, TV respects me. It laughs with me, not at me! - Homer Simpson  
  
All our separate fictions add up to joint reality. - Stanislaw Lec  
  
Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie. - Lou D. Phillips  
  
Let's bask in television's warm, glowing, warming glow. - Homer Simpson  
  
When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time. - Byron Katie  
  
TV is simply a place where people go when they get tired of thinking. - Kevin Devitte  
  
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. - Charlie Chaplin  
  
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. - Dave Barry  
  
My children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced on television. - Erma Bombeck  
  
Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. - Melissa Leo  
  
Getting an award from TV is like being kissed by someone with bad breath. - Mason Williams  
  
I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movies. - Quentin Tarantino  
  
Television: a medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done. - Ernie Kovacs  
  
All I can say is, if they show my butt in a movie, it better be a wide shot. - Jennifer Lopez  
  
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. - Ann Landers  
  
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. - Yoko Ono  
  
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. - Will Rogers  
  
A celebrity is anyone who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. - Steve Martin  
  
People who urge you to be realistic generally want you to accept their version of reality. - Unknown  
  
I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see. - Kelly Lynch  
  
You said you have a dream. Make your wonderful dream a reality, and it will become your truth. - Pokemon  
  
When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life. - Alfre Woodard  
  
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with 28 years ago. - Will Rogers  
  
The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process. - Rosa Luxemburg  
  
I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. - Carroll Shelby  
  
We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. - Milton Berle  
  
One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs. - Alfred Hitchcock  
  
When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV! - Homer Simpson  
  
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. - Niccolo Machiavelli  
  
The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know. - Peter Weller  
  
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - R Buckminster Fuller  
  
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. - Germaine Greer  
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