Real Life famous quotes
06-24-2025
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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
-- A. C. Benson -
In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
-- Abbie Cornish -
Before I was cast on The Surreal Life my knowledge of Christopher Knight was pretty much he was on The Brady Bunch and I hated The Brady Bunch.
-- Adrianne Curry -
Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
-- Alexandre Dumas -
If I could have a special power in real life I'd love to fly.
-- Ali Larter -
People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.
-- Amber Tamblyn -
Actually, I look the same in real life as I do in the movies.
-- Andy Lau -
Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.
-- Anne Lamott -
I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
-- Anne Lamott -
I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.
-- Arthur Hailey -
It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.
-- Ben Whishaw -
If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life
-- Byron Katie -
In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
-- Cameron Crowe -
I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.
-- Daniel Dae Kim -
Mine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the wordsthat smother the stonewith imagined birds,reams of them, flownfrom the mind of the shaper.Mine, said the scissors,mine all the knivesgashing through paper'sethereal lives;nothing's so properas tattering wishes.As stone crushes scissors,as paper snuffs stoneand scissors cut paper,all end alone.So heap up your paperand scissor your wishesand uproot the stonefrom the top of the hill.They all end aloneas you will, you will.
-- David Mason -
The statement I wanted to make was that it makes no sense to put these real-life women into one limited template, so why then are we doing it to our fictitious heroines?
-- David Trumble -
Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.
-- Drew Barrymore -
There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.
-- E. T. A. Hoffmann -
I've got a clear line between work and real life.
-- Ed Westwick -
I've always made music that was representative of real life.
-- Eric Church -
My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.
-- Fred Durst -
He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.
-- Geraldine McCaughrean -
[I'm] an extremely private dude and all this is happening so damn quick. I really haven't had any time to rationalize it. But it's nothing that I'm going to let freak me out or take control of me or my thoughts or my real life.
-- Heath Ledger -
As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
-- Ivy Compton-Burnett -
Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.
-- J.M.G. Le Clézio -
In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.
-- Jackson Katz -
There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.
-- Jaegwon Kim -
The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.
-- James Mangold -
Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.
-- Jamie Campbell Bower -
I'm very shy in real life; I can't really hit on girls.
-- Jeffrey Donovan -
I have an old soul. I don't know any real-life lingo, so I have to take it from movies.
-- Jennifer Lawrence -
I’d rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.
-- Jennifer Lawrence -
The films I do always have a happy ending. I hope it reflects back to real life.
-- Jessica Alba -
In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
-- Jessica Savitch -
When I'm filming, I live out of a suitcase, so everything is thrown everywhere. In real life, I'm a bit tidier.
-- Joanne Froggatt -
There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life---real life---seems to exist at one remove.
-- Jojo Moyes -
I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life
-- Jon Hamm -
Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.
-- Jordin Sparks -
I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life.
-- Kate Mara -
But in real life, happily-ever-after is just the beginning. It's where life starts.
-- Kay Hooper -
I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.
-- Kevin Smith -
When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
-- Laura Carmichael -
Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
-- Laura Prepon -
The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.
-- Lucy Hale -
I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'
-- Maisie Williams -
When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.
-- Matthew Lawrence -
Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.
-- Michael Moorcock -
I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.
-- Michel Houellebecq -
I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.
-- Miguel -
I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.
-- Nicholas A. Christakis -
There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.
-- Norman Douglas -
One's only real life is the life one never leads.
-- Oscar Wilde -
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
-- Quentin Tarantino -
Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
-- Richard Dawkins -
I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that's why I like things that are more extreme.
-- Rob Zombie -
You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
-- Ryan Holiday -
Chemistry on film is like chemistry in real life, it's either there or it isn't.
-- Sanaa Lathan -
I don't jump in real life, why would I jump in a photo?
-- Sara Quin -
The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.
-- Sarah Dessen -
Friends, much as in real life, are often more trouble than their worth.
-- Scott Meyers -
The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.
-- Stella Adler -
In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.
-- Stuart Townsend -
I just fight in my movies, never in real life.
-- Sylvester Stallone -
Nothing is wrong—whatever is happening is just “real life.
-- Tara Brach -
In real life, I'm always in tracksuits, and I never wear makeup.
-- Teresa Palmer -
Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
-- Terry Gross -
My real life helped me sell a lot of records.
-- The Notorious B.I.G. -
For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life.
-- Tim Vine -
One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.
-- Tobias Wolff -
Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
-- Tom Ford -
Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life
-- Veronica Roth -
I appreciate the Surreal Life. I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldnt have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.
-- Vince Neil -
It's no good saying, 'hold it' to a moment in real life.
-- Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon -
I live a real life so I forget to take pictures.
-- Iman Shumpert -
There's no difference between my persona on Twitter and Instagram and in real life.
-- Lili Reinhart -
There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.
-- Sax Rohmer -
Definitely in movies, girls talk about boys all the time. And even in real life, I feel like a lot of my conversations revolved around - or maybe not now because I'm getting a little older - obsessing over boys.
-- Sophia Takal -
In order to cooperate in the material worlds as agents of a divine power, the spirits temporarily have a material body. By the work required in their corporeal lives, the spirits improve their intelligence and, by observing God's law, they acquire the merits which will lead them to eternal happiness.
-- Allan Kardec -
Only when we are over, does our real life begin.
-- Antero Alli -
It is a surreal life living on a television series set, and especially when I go out in public. I have people who recognize me and will come up to me, saying how much they enjoy seeing me, asking for a picture, and I still think to myself, "Uh, why?"
-- Atticus Shaffer -
Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.
-- Roger Moore
