In Real Life Quotes

#1. To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

Ted Danson

#2. In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.

Colleen Atwood

#3. In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

Marina Abramovic

#4. What might be merely embarrassing in real life is made obscene and hostile by TV.

Ben Fountain

#5. Sometimes i just get bored live in real life, so i will hide my self in to the fiction by writing and reading, then comeback to real life as new me.

Vindri Prachmitasari

#6. In real life I've learned to love not wearing any makeup whatsoever, and I'm super low-maintenance when it comes to my hair.

Leighton Meester

#7. I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.

Michael Imperioli

#8. People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.

Rachel Nichols

#9. In real life, people end up doing things because it's convenient and it works for them. You don't get up every day regretting what you're doing.

Mike Colter

#10. Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for the clothes, but it's not what you want in real life.

Demi Moore

#11. We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people ... When we come home, when you're on your own I'm sure you're really different than when you're with your boss.

Malin Akerman

#12. There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal 'bad boy' probably doesn't actually like it when he is bad toward her.

John Dickson

#13. You don't have to believe everything you think."
- Chris Hardwick, "The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)

Chris Hardwick

#14. I'm great at fake typing but in real life terrible.

Elden Henson

#15. People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'

Gwendoline Christie

#16. So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.'

Shailene Woodley

#17. I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#18. Liam's bunny was one of those things Dragos didn't understand. The stuffed toy was floppy, super soft and had big, dark eyes. Liam adored it, although Dragos wasn't quite sure why. In real life, a bunny that size would barely make an appetizer.

Thea Harrison

#19. If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.

Adam Mansbach

#20. I guess after a certain age, things change and those things or people or friendships that happen in movies, just don't happen in real life.

Alberto Fuguet

#21. In January 2012, Google Plus started to roll out support for nicknames and pseudonyms, but those registering with a name other than their real-life one must be able to prove that they have been using that alternative name elsewhere, either on the Web or in real life.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#22. In terms I hope you'll understand, darling, in fairytales, the prince vanquishes the wicked queen. The evil stepmother. The malicious goblin. In real life, Daisy, to avenge wrong done to his princess, if the need arises, the prince puts a bullet in somebody's brain.

Kristen Ashley

#23. I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.

Jodie Foster

#24. These are challenges," Jack told her. "That's it. We are going to win. You know why? Because it doesn't matter if you're in a fairy tale or here in real life, doing the right thing still counts for something. We're going to win because we're good, decent people trying to accomplish something noble.

James Riley

#25. This is the trouble with meeting people in real life: They don't come with profiles attached.

Sophie Kinsella

#26. Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.

Jean Thompson

#27. His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life

John Green

#28. Keep in mind that in real life love doesn't overcome obstacles all by itself.

Rido Arbain

#29. Truth is man's nature; to be untrue is to be false to one's nature. dharma (Right Action) is the practical application in real life of the ideal of truth. Shanthi (Peace) is the result of Dharma and Preme (Love) is the sffulgence of Shanthi.

Sathya Sai Baba

#30. Looking at someone else's relationship for the answers was like reading about a romance novel hero and expecting to find a carbon copy in real life

Maya Banks

#31. The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

Charles Handy

#32. 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

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

Joanne Harris

#34. I'm taking fifteen, and we're moving this discussion upstairs."
"You can have here! I will not listen."
"You will listen," Mallory said, "and you'll tell your book club exactly what you heard."
"But is like Twilight in real life!" Berna protested. "Sparkles!

Chloe Neill

#35. I have, like, three suits to my name. But one thing I've learned is that when you dress up in real life, people treat you differently.

Matt Bomer

#36. In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.

Adam Levine

#37. I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#38. In real life, it's good Netiquette to limit yourself to a two drink maximum when social networking.

David Chiles

#39. What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.

Maurice De Vlaminck

#40. Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

Jane Haddam

#41. In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists.

Aaron Starmer

#42. In real life a right-angled triangle is very unlikely to have a square on its hypotenuse.

H. F. Ellis

#43. The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.

Gene Siskel

#44. Old beggars in stories are never really old beggars," Simmon said with a hint of accusation in his voice. "They're always a witch or a prince or an angel or something."
"In real life old beggars are almost always old beggars," I pointed out.

Patrick Rothfuss

#45. An old song surfaced in my memories. Love is all you need. Maybe, but in real life love was rarely all you got. Raphael and I also had pride, and guilt, and anger, jealousy and hurt feelings,

Ilona Andrews

#46. Very strange!" he said to himself, vacantly. "It's like a scene in a novel - it's like nothing in real life." He

Wilkie Collins

#47. I have never been afraid to go a bit out there with what I am wearing on film. I tend to be a bit more conservative in real life, with mountains of black in my closet.

Jane Badler

#48. We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.

Epictetus

#49. I do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life.

Gina Rodriguez

#50. In real life, the dots aren't numbered.

Regina Brett

#51. I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed, 'Here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.'

Nick Nolte

#52. If only falling in real life love were this easy. Take a big breath and open your eyes

Linda Yellin

#53. My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.

Taylor Momsen

#54. In real life, I'm so brutally honest that it almost works against me sometimes.

Holland Roden

#55. I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

Linda Cardellini

#56. I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.

Bruce Willis

#57. Take Landon McKellips. He always plays the part of a womanizing playboy, but for all I know, he's completely different from that in real life.' 'No,' Slade said. 'He's actually like that.

Janette Rallison

#58. Without romance, films will be boring. I doubt if people now understand romance, though they may claim it otherwise. I am very romantic in real life.

Sunny Deol

#59. I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.

Emma Watson

#60. I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are.

Ellen Datlow

#61. When I find the character, I try to spend time with them and get to know them very well. Therefore my notes are not from the character that I had in my mind before, but are instead based on the people I've met in real life.

Abbas Kiarostami

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

Tom Ford

#63. When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life

Carl Henegan

#64. It's also important to remember that no one is "the bad guy" or "the best friend" or "the whore with a heart of gold" in real life; in real life we each of us regard ourselves as the main character, the protagonist, the big cheese; the camera is on us, baby.

Stephen King

#65. May I ask how your revolution's going?
Revolutions always go more smoothly around a campfire in the jungle than they do in real life.

Colin Cotterill

#66. I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life. I have yet to prove myself in the movies, but I'd love to get the opportunity to do that.

Evan Peters

#67. I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.

Lesley Manville

#68. I don't have a brother in real life.

Louis C.K.

#69. MEG (to Dante, the vampire):Vampires aren't as cool as I expected them to be. In romance novels, vampires are all dark and broody and sexy. In real life, you talk an awful lot about stocks.

Sophie Oak

#70. Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition.

Graham Greene

#71. Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can't do in real life. It allows you to understand more than just what life provides you.

Stella Adler

#72. When I read both pilots for 'Breaking Bad' and the 'Michael J. Fox Show,' I turned to my husband in real life, and I'm like, 'That is an amazing script.'

Betsy Brandt

#73. The law of thermodynamics, you know, the idea that nothing is lost, that a loss in one area equals a gain in the other, was actually not invented by scientists but by the people who write redemptive fiction. [...] Actually, in real life, we lose things all the time and they're gone. Lost, period.

Jane Hamilton

#74. I have found great power in taking my 'difference' out for a spin in a very public way. And usually, the worst, most personally embarrassing thing you imagine in your mind is often not anywhere near as bad in real life.

Aimee Mullins

#75. As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. "No, we can't do that." "No, that's not in the budget." "No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar." What kind of way is that to live?

Tina Fey

#76. In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

Jessica Cutler

#77. I love weird man, when you get to do something that you don't necessarily get to do in real life, play characters that are a little bit outlandish.

David Koechner

#78. Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.

Randy Savage

#79. You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.

Delphine De Vigan

#80. My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids.

Alan Thicke

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

Norman Douglas

#82. You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

Neil Gaiman

#83. We try to make art perfect because we never manage it in real life

Jasper Fforde

#84. You can always tell who a writer subconsciously/consciously dislikes/hates/discriminates against in real life based on who they don't write about more than who they do.

Ash Gray

#85. Say, Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood. But what do I know of real people or the world, considering my strange existence?

Dean Koontz

#86. I don't know how to talk to people anymore." Her voice sounded muffled, as if she were wiping her nose. "Yeah, I noticed. You're like a walking Internet comment, just spewing whatever pops off the top of your head. You can't do that with people in real life.

Emma Scott

#87. This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#88. That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.

DJ Qualls

#89. Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

Georg Brandes

#90. In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life.

Ally Condie

#91. You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.

Sebastian Stan

#92. Finding Grant however and living happily ever after was an illusion, a dream. Things like that didn't happen to women like them. Things like that didn't happen in real life. Real life was shacking up with a man you didn't love just to have the security of a roof over your head.
Elle Ison

Shawn Reilly

#93. questing in real life is much harder than it's made out to be in stories.

Eric Smith

#94. I love you in my dreams, but not in real life.

Mason Cooley

#95. To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance
not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

Richard Hugo

#96. If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

Christian Bale

#97. I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate.

Joshua Sasse

#98. I don't see such a huge difference between online and 'in real life'. I think it has now become one and the same.

Beeban Kidron

#99. I'M FRUSTRATED, because pop culture, music and movies glorify these types of police citizen altercations and promote an invincible attitude that continues to get young men killed in real life, away from safety movie sets and music studios.

Benjamin Watson

#100. I was the kind of woman who got the guy in the books. But not in real life. Never in real life.

J. Lynn