Real Life Quotes - Page 18

• From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.

  Richard Gere

  Buddhist, Real, Views

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• I think of clothes a lot like costumes. I think of what I wear in real life as being my real life character's costume.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Real, Character, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mom, Real, Home

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• The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mom, Real, Hypnosis

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• Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

  Mark Haddon

  Real, Numbers, Paper

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• A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.

  Joanne Harris

  Real, Tantrums, Littles

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• 'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.

  Ethan Hawke

  Jobs, Real, Stories

  "Q&A – Ethan Hawke Calls Brooklyn’s Finest the Kind of Movie That Made Him Become an Actor". "AMC" Interview, www.amc.com.

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• The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  "THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 7-25-04: QUESTIONS FOR CARL HIAASEN; Miami Voice". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. July 25, 2004.

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• I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

  Jonah Hill

  Crazy, Real, Mean

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• There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Real, Character, Play

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. January 31, 2006.

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• In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Real, Names

  Speech in Washington, D.C., March 26, 1966.

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• Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

  Vanilla Ice

  Real, Night, Life Is

  Interview with Nate Erickson, www.gq.com. April 5, 2013.

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• It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Real, Struggle, School

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• I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Art, Real

  "WWD CEO Summit: Marc Jacobs". Interview with Jessica Iredale, wwd.com. January 9, 2013.

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• The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

  Garson Kanin

  Life, Spiritual, Real

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• In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

  Bil Keane

  Real, Inspiration, Cartoon

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• And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

  Stephen King

  Real, Happy Endings, Neat

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• I actually got stabbed at my friend's bachelor party. In real life.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Real, Party, Bachelors

  "On-Location Interview: Johnny Knoxville". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 30, 2005.

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• I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it.

  Diane Kruger

  Stars, Real, Appreciate

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• I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Real, Technology, Thinking

  "Ashton Kutcher is the highest paid sitcom actor at $700,000 an episode". Details Interview, www.celebitchy.com. August 10, 2011.

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• I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Real, Book

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• In my real life, both my bosses are gay. On the 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' Andy Cohen is gay, everybody at Bravo is gay - we call them the gay mafia. Over at 'Glee' and 'The New Normal,' my boss Ryan Murphy is gay. On the show, my boss, played by Andrew Reynolds, is gay in real life. I'm surrounded by all my gay bosses.

  NeNe Leakes

  Real, Gay, Atlanta

  "EXCLUSIVE: NeNe Leakes on 'The New Normal,' Gay Rights and Her 'Glam-Baby'". Interview with Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

  David Lynch

  Real, Interesting, Comedy

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview with Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?

  John Malkovich

  Real, Actors, Might

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• I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.

  Taryn Manning

  Lying, Real, Pregnancy

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