Made Me Realise Quotes

#1. 'Foyle's War' made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on his soul, but he never let his personal demons get in the way of what was best for our country.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#2. Acting and singing were just a hobby, but getting into drama school made me realise I could actually do it for a living.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

#3. Filming this drama made me realise how noble the nursing profession really is
from the selfless dedication to the care and love for patients. Let me take this opportunity to pay tribute to all the great nurses out there!

Rebecca Lim

#4. I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.

Lucy Davis

#5. Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

Laurence Fox

#6. I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.

Tom Hollander

#7. Working crew made me realise that the actors are a very small part of a very big machine, with each part being vital to make the show work. It so important to remember that it's not about you, it's about the show, and working crew hammered that point home to me.

Katie McGrath

#8. Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say 'but you can't do that' aren't actually very important. I don't take 'no' too seriously.

Richard Rogers

#9. The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown

Simon Hughes

#10. Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity, self-worth and confidence.

Scarlett Johansson

#11. God had already made me realise that His mercy does not grow weary of waiting for some souls and that He enlightens them only slowly. So I took good care not to anticipate Him.

John Beevers

#12. Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously - the quick ways of doing things - was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter - into yourself.

Isamu Noguchi

#13. It was nothing more than the instinct of sociability, but it made me realise how long it had been since I'd been smiled at by a stranger. How long since I'd had someone to smile back to.

Alexis Hall

#14. I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

Mickey Rourke

#15. The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.

Gina McKee

#16. Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

Matt Smith

#17. It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.

Daniel Barber

#18. To have your heart in pieces while every other aspect of your life couldn't go better is a traumatic experience. In appearance, life is fine. But as you put your day in focus, everything turns grey. What happened made me realise that complete, absolute happiness doesn't exist.

Matthew Bellamy

#19. By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing.

Abhishek Bachchan

#20. When people come up to me and say 'oh, your singing made me cry', it's nice to realise that you're making other people happy, but I don't know how I do it. I just sing.

Faryl Smith

#21. The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

Louis Kahn

#22. This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.

Javier Bardem

#23. It made her sad to realise that in spite of their so often having the same reactions, the same feelings, they never would reach the same conclusions, because their respective aims in life were almost diametrically opposed.

Paul Bowles

#24. Deep down, in some vague, mixed way I had been letting myself hope that he didn't really care for her, that it was me he loved and that kissing me would have made him realise it ...

Dodie Smith

#25. I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made a mistake with that assumption. It was really, really hard because you pull a few things apart and then you realise how everything relies on everything else and it can all fall apart.

Ben Affleck

#26. I almost gasp out loud when I realise: Who I am is what I choose to do. Just like Mum. Who she is, at her core, is made up of all the decisions she makes.

Teri Terry

#27. I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

Andy Murray

#28. You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?"
"I was hungry, allowances should be made.

Gail Carriger

#29. The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

Steve Biko

#30. While the Sun is setting, we realise that we have survived today as well and we thank to our mind, to our luck and to the universe! All these three made this miracle possible! Yes, staying alive is a miracle!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. We live in such an amazing World and we don't even see it.
It's clouded by hate, betrayal and death.
When do we stop all of that and begin living?, when do we realise that we're made for more than this?, our ability is far more powerful than we think!.

Ellie Williams

#32. You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.

Peter Morgan

#33. I'm not striving for fame, that's for sure. I don't particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there's a balance to be made there.

Jamie Lawson

#34. I just wish people would realise that anything is possible if you try. Dreams are made if people try.

Terry Fox

#35. John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

Brian Eno

#36. All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!

Lewis Carroll

#37. That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.

Gordon Banks

#38. I didn't realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?

Simon Cowell

#39. I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.

Eoin Colfer

#40. Cricketers are made to feel that they are very special. That is okay as long as cricketers realise they are only as good as their last innings.

Harsha Bhogle

#41. Almost 70 per cent of your fitness battle is won the day you realise what your body needs and when. I've made my own diets, and I decide for myself what works for me.

Arjun Rampal

#42. A lot of people are very interested that a Korean director has made a western. But when I look at the reactions of the audience, I realise the points at which people laugh are the same for a Korean audience and an international audience.

Kim Ji-woon

#43. Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.

Charles Darwin

#44. It is only very slightly later, when my client's head is sliced off, that I realise I have made an error. My career is finished.

Stanley Donwood

#45. I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.

Jo Nesbo

#46. And of course she's sad about losing her leg, but she says it's made her realise how many things she hasn't lost ... it's like a millionaire who loses a thousand dollars- he's sad, but he's still not that bad off.

Michael J. Collins

#47. When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

Jeanette Winterson

#48. So that was why people read. Because books explained things: how you thought, and how you behaved, and made you realise you were not alone in doing what you did or feeling what you felt.

Veronica Henry

#49. When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

Theodor Adorno

#50. Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand.

Maria Callas

#51. New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.

Yayoi Kusama

#52. To realise a progressive truth theories must be remoulded according to practice and not practice made to suit the theories.

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