Top 100 Quotes About My Real Life
#1. I think everyone has been annoyed at school or in their life, that's a type of bullying. So, you can take those feelings and make them bigger. But I try not to use too much from my real life, because you'll be stuck with that all day.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#2. Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.
Eydie Gorme
#3. I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.
William Boyd
#4. No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.
Vera Farmiga
#5. All these jobs that seemed incidental and almost playful, on the borders of my real life, were going to move front and center.
Alice Munro
#6. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy my real life, but I feel about it much the way I do about New York City, my chosen and adored home: I'm always happy to leave, and I'm always happy to come back.
Jennifer Egan
#8. [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
#9. I was interested in the kicks and the punches. I felt like I could utilize that in my real life, and not just in fake land. I've always done yoga for my breathing, and hiking for my mind, but I was also exercising, at the same time.
Zoey Deutch
#10. Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.
Paz Vega
#11. I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.
Shirley Henderson
#12. After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person.
Justin Kirk
#13. There is a jarring disconnect between what I want my real-life intelligence officers to be doing versus what I want my fake TV intelligence officers to be doing.
Sarah Vowell
#14. More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
Harlan Coben
#15. Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.
Sharon Van Etten
#16. I don't throw around the word 'brother' because I'm so, so close to my real-life brothers and my real-life sisters, and being a brother is so important to me.
Jussie Smollett
#17. I ignore people who need me and latch on to people who don't. I dive into every other world except my own just because I want something more glamorous than my real life. I do destructive shit so a stupid hypocritical fish will like me.
I fall for fish instead of girls.
Hannah Moskowitz
#18. I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
Nancy Travis
#19. The minute you walk through the door and your kid runs into your arms, you're smacked in the face with a dose of reality: It's like, this is my real life.
Faith Hill
#20. I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
Pat Conroy
#21. I have to be able to shake my imaginary life from my real life when I walk through the door with my children who immediately need a lot from me. It's actually kind of a relief, especially if it was a dark day on set.
Mira Sorvino
#22. I'm biding my time until my real life kicks in."
"How will you know when that happens?"
"It will be when I no longer have a list of things I've never done.
G.J. Walker-Smith
#23. And always John, who is my own Gilbert Blythe, my real life Mr. Darcy, and the love of my life.
Lindsay Eland
#24. I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
Park Chan-wook
#25. I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
Anne Tyler
#26. Panic is an incredibly catalyzing creative force. And almost out of sheer necessity, I found I had to talk about myself and my real life as it is effectively lived by me.
John Hodgman
#27. I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone ... it's a joke!
Kathy Griffin
#28. So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around.
Alan Thicke
#29. Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
Gertrude Atherton
#30. My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.
Dennis Quaid
#31. And I can't even begin to reconcile what is happening right in front of me to my real life.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#32. I've never scratched, or punched, or slapped anybody in my real life.
Leelee Sobieski
#33. I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes.
Paul Dano
#34. I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, and I've had to live that as though it's real. And it can take a really big emotional toll on someone.
Nina Dobrev
#35. I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.
Danielle Trussoni
#36. Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life.
Isabel Gillies
#37. Then there was someone else I met,
whose face and voice I can't forget,
and the memory of her
is like a jail I'm trapped inside,
or maybe she is something I just use
to hold my real life at a distance.
Tony Hoagland
#38. I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.
Claire Tomalin
#39. I have a split - of my real home-life side that's real-life, and then the creative side that is not necessarily real-life, but it intersects my real-life so much.
Frank Iero
#40. The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.
Melissa Etheridge
#41. I honestly in a lot of ways don't want to sing about my real life, because that's private.
Carrie Underwood
#42. Sometimes I wish I could just press a button and be through school and starting my real life,' I told him.
'This is your real life, Al,' he said, 'Don't start living in the future. That's like gulping down a piece of fudge cake and then asking yourself, 'Where'd it go?' You're missing the moment.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#43. So just because I like reading about those kinds of guys, doesn't mean I need my real-life guys to act like that.
Colleen Hoover
#44. If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.
Gabrielle Union
#45. I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that.
Nick Jonas
#46. 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
#47. Waiting for my real life to start is no excuse to waste the life I have right now.
Susane Colasanti
#48. I dress like an old woman in my real life. If you're having conversations with people, you don't want them to remember you as the girl with the tits, You want them to pay attention to what you're saying
Jennifer Lawrence
#49. Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.
Emma Thompson
#50. I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life.
Stark Sands
#51. I stay with my family. I try to be a good husband and good dad. That's my real life.
Omar Sy
#52. I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in 'Cop.'
Lesley Ann Warren
#53. I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.
Star Jones
#54. It's been such a struggle to learn all that I have; I wouldn't want to give any of that knowledge up. That's why I've always loved acting; as a kid, I didn't necessarily like my real life, so I could escape into these other characters and experience a life completely different from my own.
Drew Barrymore
#55. If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.
Conor Oberst
#56. 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
#57. I've never really thought of my real life - you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at night - as being a pop star's life.
Neneh Cherry
#58. I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.
Nick Earls
#59. The whole world seemed a maze of shifting mirrors in which I wandered alone, looking always and frenziedly for the exit back into my real life, where people had substance, did as they said they would, and were whole.
Claire Messud
#60. My life - my real life - started when a man walked into it, a handsome stranger in a perfectly cut suit, and, yes I know how that sounds.
Marisa De Los Santos
#61. I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in my real life. I am able to let go. I think it's why I like it so much.
Chelsea Cain
#62. I was joking the other day about how my real life feels like a TV show, and my TV life feels real - because, to be on Thursday nights on NBC, which is what I grew up with, has been such a big part of inspiring me. To be part of that tradition is really completely surreal, and I'm so grateful.
Whitney Cummings
#63. I'm a very boring person in my real life so I got to act out misbehaving fantasies was really fun.
Gillian Jacobs
#64. I'm a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. It's fun, you know? It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
Katee Sackhoff
#65. When I say I get inspiration from my real life, I think of my real life as extending about 300 meters radius around me. So what I see in that area is what inspires me.
Hayao Miyazaki
#66. Being homesick is good-it means I am happy in my real life.
Judy Greer
#68. Whether I'm running on the beach without my shirt or whether I'm going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner - I don't choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.
Matthew McConaughey
#69. I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.
Sydney Pollack
#70. In my real life I had to confront the sins of the father, but it's also a symbolic journey - a social, psychological, sexual journey for women and minorities who must pass through patriarchy and the symbolic order in order to claim a self.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#72. I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.
Gretchen Rubin
#73. My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.
Lilly Singh
#74. In my real life I live in the countryside, I walk a lot, I shoot clay pigeons, I don't get involved in the film business or anything, and then in my cinematic life, I think I am drawn to the dark side.
Nick Love
#75. So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.
Henry Rollins
#76. It is time I came back to my real life
After this voyage to an island with no name,
Where I lay down at sunrise drunk with light.
May Sarton
#77. I guess some people like to just stick with their sound, like Weezer or something, but I think I just try to keep it as close to my real life, in a Neil Young sort of way, as possible.
Kurt Vile
#78. I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.
Alicia Silverstone
#79. I'm extremely happy, but I don't do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that's such a personal thing to me. I'd rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that.
Carrie Underwood
#80. I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.
Hrithik Roshan
#81. I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life, so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo shoots.
Taylor Swift
#82. I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.
John Keats
#83. I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody saw was no longer me.
Philip O Ceallaigh
#84. I think you've really got to cling to what makes sense to you. Obviously, I'm not a serial murderer in my real life, so that's where you have to delve into and do all the research. But, you have to find something likable in the character.
Jamie Dornan
#85. Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.
Arlaina Tibensky
#86. I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of my health and energy.
Hermann Hesse
#87. I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love songs cuz I don't really have much boy experience. I just write about what I am actually going through in my real life.
Brie Larson
#88. I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life
Anamika Mishra
#89. But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life. It was no longer just creeping up, peeking over the horizon, but instead lingering in plain sight.
Sarah Dessen
#90. I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday.
Gillian Jacobs
#91. My real life was when I was just a working guy. You know, it's OK to head out for Wonderful. But on your way to Wonderful, you're gonna have to pass through All Right. And when you get to All Right, take a good look around, and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.
Bill Withers
#92. I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.
Holland Taylor
#93. I write - and read - for the sake of the story ... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?
Ayn Rand
#94. My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.
Jane McGonigal
#95. It felt as if I had lived all my life inside a flat painting and only now had I stepped into the real world.
Rosamund Hodge
#96. I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.
Peter Weller
#97. When I as reading and writing, I was in that exhilarating place where the life of the imagination is more real than the tiles and soil and rock under my feet.
Deborah Lawrenson
#98. You're the one real thing in my life right now ... You should know I don't want to let that go.
Samantha Young
#99. My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.
Kevin Vanhoozer
#100. What is your name?" I asked, voice hoarse.
"Alexandria," she repeated in a soft voice I'd never heard Alex use in real life.
"And who am I?"
"Aiden." She smiled, and I flinched. "You are my Master.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
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