Real Life Quotes:

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

- A. C. Benson

topic: Real, Real Life, May

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

- Abbie Cornish

source: "Abbie Cornish Talks THE GIRL, Relating to Her Character, The Remake of ROBOCOP, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

topic: Real, Real Life, Optimist

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

topic: Real Life, Knights, Brady Bunch, Brady

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Real, Drama, Real Life, No Drama

If I could have a special power in real life I'd love to fly.

- Ali Larter

topic: Real, Real Life, Special

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.

- Amber Tamblyn

topic: Real, Real Life, People

Actually, I look the same in real life as I do in the movies.

- Andy Lau

topic: Real, Real Life, Looks

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Real, Real Life, Novel

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Real, Real Life, Afternoon

How plotless real life was!

- Anne Tyler

source: Anne Tyler (1992). “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant”

topic: Life, Real, Real Life

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

- Arthur Hailey

topic: Real, Real Life, Thinking

Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

- Bai Ling

topic: Real, Real Life, Acting

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

- Ben Whishaw

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fun, Real, Real Life

If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life

- Byron Katie

topic: Real, Real Life, Missing

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

topic: Real, Real Life, Being Real

I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.

- Daniel Dae Kim

topic: Real, Real Life, Thinking, Ominous

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

topic: Crush, Real Life, Cutting, Scissors, Snuff

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

topic: Real, Real Life, Heroines

I like being a leader in real life.

- Donnie Wahlberg

topic: Real, Real Life, Leader

I'm the least sexy person in real life.

- Dree Hemingway

topic: Sexy, Real, Real Life

Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.

- Drew Barrymore

topic: Real, Real Life, Resolve

There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.

- E. T. A. Hoffmann

source: Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.117, Hay House, Inc

topic: Real, Real Life

I've got a clear line between work and real life.

- Ed Westwick

source: "Question time: Ed Westwick". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2009.

topic: Real, Real Life, Lines

I come out of real life.

- Elizabeth Edwards

topic: Real, Real Life

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

- Eric Church

topic: Real, Real Life, Made

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

- Fred Durst

topic: Real, Inspiration, Real Life, Real Life Experiences

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

topic: Real, Real Life, Needed

[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

topic: Real, Real Life, Freak

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.

- Ivy Compton-Burnett

source: 1945 Orion, no.1,'A Conversation'.

topic: Real, Real Life, Plot

Real life seems to have no plots.

- Ivy Compton-Burnett

topic: Life, Real, Real Life

Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.

- J.M.G. Le Clézio

topic: Real, Book, Real Life, Real Books

In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.

- Jackson Katz

topic: Real, Real Life, Enjoy

There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.

- Jaegwon Kim

source: Jaegwon Kim (2000). “Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-body Problem and Mental Causation”, p.60, MIT Press

topic: Philosophy, Real, Real Life, Free Lunch

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

- James Mangold

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Real, Real Life, Acting

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

- Jamie Campbell Bower

topic: Real, Real Life, Wonderful, Movie Sets

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

- Jane Haddam

topic: Real, Real Life, Being Real

I'm very shy in real life; I can't really hit on girls.

- Jeffrey Donovan

topic: Girl, Real, Real Life

Real life doesn't have to suck.

- Jennifer Crusie

topic: Real, Real Life

I have an old soul. I don't know any real-life lingo, so I have to take it from movies.

- Jennifer Lawrence

topic: Real, Real Life, Soul, Old Soul

The films I do always have a happy ending. I hope it reflects back to real life.

- Jessica Alba

topic: Real, Real Life, Happy Endings

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

- Jessica Savitch

source: Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

topic: Real, Real Life, Events

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

topic: Real, Real Life, Suitcases

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

topic: Real, Real Life, Normal

I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life

- Jon Hamm

topic: Real, Real Life, Able

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Real, Book, Real Life

Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.

- Jordin Sparks

topic: Real, Real Life, Hollywood

I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life.

- Kate Mara

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Crazy, Real, Real Life

But in real life, happily-ever-after is just the beginning. It's where life starts.

- Kay Hooper

source: Kay Hooper (1984). “If There Be Dragons”

topic: Real, Real Life, Ever After, Happily Ever After

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

- Kevin Smith

topic: Real, Real Life, Creative

When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.

- Laura Carmichael

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Real, Real Life, Relief

Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.

- Laura Prepon

topic: Real, Real Life, Guy

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

- Lucy Hale

topic: Real, Real Life, Who I Am

I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'

- Maisie Williams

topic: Real, Real Life, Ugly

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

- Matthew Lawrence

topic: Real, Real Life, Trying

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

- Michael Moorcock

topic: Real, Hero, Real Life

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

- Michael Showalter

source: "Q&A: Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. July 17, 2009.

topic: Real, Real Life, Comedian

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

- Michel Houellebecq

topic: Real, Real Life, Thinking

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

- Miguel

topic: Real, Real Life, Propensity

Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.

- Mika

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Real, Real Life

I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

- Nicholas A. Christakis

source: "Fifteen Questions with Nicholas A. Christakis". Interview with Stephanie M. Woo, www.thecrimson.com. October 20, 2011.

topic: Real, Real Life, Mets

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

- Norman Douglas

topic: Real, Book, Real Life

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Life, Real, Real Life

The public is a part of my real life.

- Placido Domingo

topic: Real, Real Life

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

- Quentin Tarantino

source: Source: creativescreenwriting.com

topic: Real, Real Life, Perspective, Bad Guys

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

- Rachel Dratch

source: "Rachel Dratch: Hollywood sees me as a troll", www.cbsnews.com. April 11, 2012.

topic: Beautiful, Real, Real Life

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

topic: Real, Real Life, Blind, Slopes

In real life, I am alarmingly boring.

- Rob Delaney

topic: Real, Real Life, Boring

I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that's why I like things that are more extreme.

- Rob Zombie

topic: Real, Real Life, Enough

Chemistry on film is like chemistry in real life, it's either there or it isn't.

- Sanaa Lathan

topic: Real, Real Life, Chemistry

I don't jump in real life, why would I jump in a photo?

- Sara Quin

topic: Real, Real Life

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

- Sarah Dessen

topic: Real, Real Life, Definitions

Friends, much as in real life, are often more trouble than their worth.

- Scott Meyers

topic: Real, Real Life, Trouble

I'm a complete coward in real life.

- Seth Rogen

topic: Real, Real Life, Coward

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

- Stella Adler

topic: Real, Real Life, Imagination

In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.

- Stuart Townsend

topic: Real, Real Life, Guitar

I just fight in my movies, never in real life.

- Sylvester Stallone

topic: Real, Fighting, Real Life

Nothing is wrong—whatever is happening is just “real life.

- Tara Brach

topic: Real, Real Life

In real life, I'm always in tracksuits, and I never wear makeup.

- Teresa Palmer

source: "Teresa Palmer " by Sarah Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

topic: Real, Real Life, Makeup

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

- Terry Gross

topic: Real, Real Life, Life Is, Edited

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.

- The Notorious B.I.G.

topic: Real, Real Life, Records

For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life.

- Tim Vine

topic: Real, Real Life, Pun

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

topic: Real, Writing, Real Life

Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

- Tom Ford

source: Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

topic: Fashion, Real, Real Life, Decoration, Fashion Designer

Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life

- Veronica Roth

topic: Real, Real Life, Cowardice

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

topic: Heart, Real Life, People, Really Positive, Positive Experiences

Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life

- Will Ferrell

topic: Real, Real Life, Alcohol, Photoshop

It's no good saying, 'hold it' to a moment in real life.

- Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

topic: Real, Real Life, Moments

I live a real life so I forget to take pictures.

- Iman Shumpert

topic: Real, Real Life, Forget

I am really just writing about real life.

- Klayton

source: Source: thecelebritycafe.com

topic: Real, Writing, Real Life

Real life is crazier than fiction.

- Lauren Bowles

source: "EXCLUSIVE: True Blood's Lauren Bowles Talks Holly Clearly and Season 3 Finale" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 20, 2010.

topic: Real, Real Life, Fiction

There's no difference between my persona on Twitter and Instagram and in real life.

- Lili Reinhart

topic: Real, Real Life, Persona

Things don't happen that fast in real life.

- Mike Colter

topic: Real, Real Life, Happens

There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.

- Sax Rohmer

topic: Real, Drama, Real Life

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

topic: Girl, Real, Real Life

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

topic: Real Life, Order, Law, Eternal Happiness

Only when we are over, does our real life begin.

- Antero Alli

topic: Real, Real Life, Doe

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

source: Source: www.nerdprobs.com

topic: Real Life, Thinking, People, Life Living

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.

- Roger Moore

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Real, Real Life, Escapism

I'm nothing like Romeo in real life.

- Leonardo DiCaprio

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Real, Real Life

The first thing we noticed was how flamboyant [Dalton] Trumbo was in real life.

- Jay Roach

source: Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

topic: Real, Real Life, Firsts, Flamboyant

When you are dealing with real life, there is no way to control it.

- Adrian Grenier

topic: Real, Real Life, Way

I don't have a brother in real life.

- Louis C. K.

topic: Brother, Real, Real Life

Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.

- Alden Ehrenreich

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Real, Real Life, Woody

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

- Alec Soth

source: "A Photographic Tour in the World of Alec Soth". Interview with Jane Gudmundson and Antony Anderson, mag-en.thephotoacademy.com. May 12, 2010.

topic: Photography, Real, Real Life

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

- Aleksandar Hemon

source: "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

topic: Real, Real Life, Stories

Who need to read about real life when there's dragons. Come on!

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Source: www.yabookshelf.com

topic: Real, Real Life, Dragons

Nothing is wrong - whatever is happening is just "real life."

- Tara Brach

source: "When We Don't Make Anything 'Wrong'" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2012.

topic: Real, Real Life, Radical Acceptance

Any film is at least better than real life.

- Quentin Crisp

topic: Real, Real Life, Film

In real life I'm a tall, blond Christian.

- Gilbert Gottfried

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Christian, Real, Real Life

For one thing, I don’t pun excessively in real life.

- Tim Vine

source: "Jeremy and Tim Vine - the unlikeliest double-act around". Saga Magazine Interview, www.saga.co.uk. August 20, 2014.

topic: Real, Real Life, Pun

Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.

- Mark Zuckerberg

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Real, Real Life, Hollywood

In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.

- Tina Fey

source: "Movies: Tina Fey goes to war in 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot'". Press conference, www.usatoday.com. March 3, 2016.

topic: Real, Real Life, People

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

- Tom Stoppard

topic: Real, Real Life, Biographies, Mesh

False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible.

- Guy Finley

source: FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Jan 20, 2013

topic: Real, Real Life, Life Is

I like to do stand-up for people who live real life.

- Tracy Morgan

topic: Real, Real Life, People

Towards the end, one of them [children in "The White Queen"] was older than I was in real life.

- Max Irons

source: "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

topic: Real, Real Life, Ends

Movies are different from real life.

- Joseph Gordon-Levitt

source: Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com.

topic: Real, Real Life, Different

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

- Viggo Mortensen

source: "Sympathy for the devil". Interview with Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2009.

topic: Real, Real Life, Resolve

Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

- Viola Davis

topic: Real, Creativity, Real Life

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.

- Henry A. Kissinger

source: "Obama Is Like a Chess Player". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. July 6, 2009.

topic: Real, Real Life, Ideas

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

source: "Under their skins". Interview with Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2008.

topic: Real, Real Life, Roles

Sometimes you have to think about what you're going to say, in real life, so when you see that thought process going on in a movie, it feels real and looks real.

- Julianne Hough

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Real, Real Life, Thinking

I kind of like the idea of taking a concept and going all the way with it, even if it's not completely plausible. It's something that I like about making movies. You have a concept that maybe would not work in real life, but you can make it work in the world you're creating.

- Michel Gondry

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Real, Real Life, World

My real life is funnier than anything on TV.

- Roseanne Barr

topic: Real, Real Life, Tvs

In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.

- Elizabeth Bowen

source: Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

topic: Real, Real Life, Novel

In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.

- Natalie Portman

source: "New Again: Natalie Portman". Interview With Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2016.

topic: Real, Real Life, Gun

Not all the monsters have fangs.

- Jack London

topic: Real, Real Life, Monsters

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

- Neil Patrick Harris

source: Source: www.buzzfeed.com

topic: Fun, Real, Real Life

Actors are the neediest people you're ever going to meet. And their relationship to real life, tenuous though it is because of all the wranglers, the money, everyone throwing everything at them every day of their lives -I think they're pretty much who they were before.

- Scott Raab

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Real, Real Life, Thinking

When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them.

- Jake M. Johnson

source: Source: www.etonline.com

topic: Real, Real Life, Instinct

It's always better to be real.

- Selena Gomez

topic: Real, Life Lesson, Real Life

In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.

- Ogden Nash

source: Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

topic: Real, Real Life, Quarrels

Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.

- Simone Elkeles

source: Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

topic: Real, Real Life, Remote Control

In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.

- Liam Neeson

topic: Real, Real Life, Mankind