電影里的敘述：那只毛絨兔子問：“什么是真實？”然后這只兔子又問：“會痛嗎？”馬兒回答道：“有時會痛。”“疼痛是瞬間的嗎？”“會疼很長時間的。總之，當你變成真的，你的毛發會被撕扯，你將失去眼睛，變得殘缺。但是沒有關系，因為你變得真實起來，那些不理解的人才覺得你是丑陋的。”書中原文："What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?""Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.""Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit."Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.""Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?""It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."                                                           ——《The Velveteen Rabbit》