Quotes About Real Life

#1. To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

John Kricfalusi

#2. And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.

Sandra Cisneros

#3. In real life it was like they were playing some children's game. It was a little kid's idea of a magical object. Though what did you expect from a bunch of talking

Lev Grossman

#4. 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

#5. Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

Dan Quisenberry

#6. 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

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

Sax Rohmer

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

Maisie Williams

#9. If Eleanor tried to kiss Park, it would be real-life version of some little girl making her Barbie kiss Ken. Just smashing their faces together.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. 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

#11. Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#12. I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.

Hilary Swank

#13. Wounds make you awake in the memories but tears makes tough and dry in real life.

Kishore Bansal

#14. In every age, art holds up to us the standard pattern of exemplary conduct, and real life does its best to conform.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#15. The sneak-peeks you get off the top are of them in their real life. You're more invested, you know both of them, and you've already made assumptions. A murder who would murders someone - that makes them immediately bad - but here you see them in a different.

Kristin Lehman

#16. Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.

Christopher Hitchens

#17. It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

Alicia Witt

#18. 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

#19. I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy: David Gemmell, Raymond E. Feist. It's a nice escape from the world. As much as I do love real-life stories, they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt.

Henry Cavill

#20. Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

James Purefoy

#21. The most powerful lessons occur where studies intersect with real life.

Oliver DeMille

#22. I'd rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.

Jennifer Lawrence

#23. Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.

Dale Carnegie

#24. Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

Maeve Binchy

#25. I love sports. The spirit and the fight you put to win a game. It is just like life except that life is not a game. There is no "retry" option in real life and you don't get to get a bonus life.

Abdullah Abu Snaineh

#26. The first movie I did was 'Dan in Real Life,' which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green.'

CJ Adams

#27. Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Walter Benjamin

#28. 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

#29. It is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

George Orwell

#30. You know how you feel when you get full? Well, I don't get full. I can eat a lot. Mike and I were in Italy for 10 days, and I put on 8 pounds. So in real life, I have to make sure I'm not eating just to eat.

Carrie Underwood

#31. I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.

Krista Tippett

#32. Growing up in New Orleans helped me live a real life. I experienced so many things.

Jason Mitchell

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

Roger Moore

#34. Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.

Barry B. Powell

#35. These stories always take us to some far away places which we can never visit in real life.

Viraj J. Mahajan

#36. In 'Shadow Tag,' Erdrich creates scenes from a fictional marriage, that of two American Indians, Irene and her painter husband Gil, that suggest some of the worst psychological torments and stresses of real life.

Alan Cheuse

#37. I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities to study people; and every time I went out on the stage I tried to show the audience some bit of true human nature.

W.C. Fields

#38. I'm a very happy-go-lucky lover of all mankind as a person in real life. So when I play a darker character, I have to tap into something that isn't my natural way, and what I found was that I think human beings have the potential for all of these emotions.

Doug Jones

#39. Handsome, fictional men were so much easier to stomach than real life ones who smelled of Christmas and looked like a Calvin Klein model

Tarryn Fisher

#40. In real life, the big things and the little things are inextricably mixed up together, so in Libya at one moment, one worried because one's native boots were full of holes, and at the next, perhaps, one wondered how long one would be alive to wear them.

Rosita Forbes

#41. Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.

Joyce Carol Oates

#42. I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

Angelina Jolie

#43. You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

Annie Proulx

#44. I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.

Rob Zombie

#45. Born 4th January 1935. Left school at 16 with one 'O' level in geography ( so I know my way round the world), but continued my education at the University of Real Life, than which, you will agree, there is none better.

William Donaldson

#46. You're living with a bunch of hot guys, and instead of finding Cole and experiencing some real-life anatomy, you're shacking up with a textbook like a pariah.

Ali Novak

#47. I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it.

Diane Kruger

#48. I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well.

Alice McDermott

#49. I would only ever be involved in a reality show that was about real life and had lots of action.

Steven Seagal

#50. What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

Cornelia Funke

#51. I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

Don McLean

#52. 'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.

Ethan Hawke

#53. Dewey believed that education has a practical function and should not be seen as a series of pointless hurdles to jump over before 'real life' begins. Education isn't a preamble to life; it's part of life, and it exists to solve practical human problems and meet human needs.

Gregory Bassham

#54. One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in.

Dee Dee Myers

#55. He shrugged. Whatever does it mean? We write poems about it all day and sing songs about it all night but if there is such a thing in real life I'm damned if I know.

Philippa Gregory

#56. The fans always ask me, 'Is Si that crazy in real life?' and I said, 'No, hey, he tones it down for television.'

Si Robertson

#57. Spending so much time alone had turned Chloe's imagination into a deep dark forest. It was a magical place to escape to, and so much more thrilling than real life.

David Walliams

#58. In novels, women run off with their lovers. In real life, women stay.

Kim Wright

#59. In the real-life struggles between right and wrong, justice and injustice, life and death, we all realize that truth does matter. Jesus Christ repeatedly talked about the supreme value of truth. While

Ravi Zacharias

#60. Real life, the real world, is a vast theater of salvation, directed by our wise and totally involved God.

Eugene H. Peterson

#61. In real life I'm the type of girl who doesn't take herself too seriously. I'm very serious when it comes to work, but I like to make jokes and have a good laugh and make fun of myself.

Gal Gadot

#62. Dozens of books. I wonder if she's read them all, or if she just needs them for comfort. Maybe she uses them as an escape from her real life.

Colleen Hoover

#63. In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#64. At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.

Larry Clark

#65. When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

Alexandre Dumas

#66. I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life.

Joss Whedon

#67. In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#68. The thing with 'The West Wing' is that the fantasy was legitimately better than the reality - these were smarter, better people than their real-life counterparts, working together at a better White House than the one we had.

Alex Pareene

#69. Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

#70. Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

Marlene Dietrich

#71. But why, ... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking about a phantasmagoric never-never land of your own? Because, I take it, one of the main things the author wants to say is that the real life of men is of that mythical and heroic quality.

C.S. Lewis

#72. Public attitudes follow real life experience, and as marriage equality has spread to more communities, Americans have seen more freedom, stronger families, more protection for children and more fairness.

Ken Mehlman

#73. I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going deep down into life and not caring a damn ...

P.G. Wodehouse

#74. My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

Lilly Singh

#75. I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the tiniest light, provided by one word, written in fluorescent paint. Maybe it wasn't what was once there, in real life. But in this one, it said it all: STAY.

Sarah Dessen

#76. The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that there's more to life than being happy. And so that's based on real life observations and things that we've learned as adults.

Pete Docter

#77. I routinely inform people when I meet them that I am like a real life version of Dory the fish, as I am very forgetful and have problems tracking conversations.

Steven Magee

#78. If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.

James Mangold

#79. In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#80. Real life applications get tricky when we think about them.

Kevin DeYoung

#81. 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

#82. Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.

Laurence Overmire

#83. Susannah." My dance partner's breath was soft against my cheek. "Susannah ... "
Yeah. In my dreams.
In real life, the voice calling my name wasn't a bit masculine. That's because it belonged to a twelve-year-old boy.

Meg Cabot

#84. My real life is funnier than anything on TV.

Roseanne Barr

#85. I have found that
just as in real life
imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

Steve Martin

#86. In Hollywood, you're always playing roles ... It's like going through the motions. But in real life, it's like, you gotta take care of business. It's not just the movies.

Mickey Rourke

#87. I swear in real life-probably too much-though I don't swear in front of my gran. We adapt to every situation.

Melanie Chisholm

#88. 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

#89. I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

R.L. Stine

#90. I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#91. Maybe we all have imposter syndrome and perpetually feel like our real life is right around the corner,

Anna Kendrick

#92. That kind of love was a thing to be snatched up and crushed in the jaws of real life.

Andrew Davidson

#93. If I didn't watch so much TV, real life wouldn't be so disappointing.

Mary Calmes

#94. I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.

Kelly Clarkson

#95. The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

Chuck Palahniuk

#96. Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

Franz Grillparzer

#97. So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.

Nick Hornby

#98. Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me ... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.

Paul Stanley

#99. In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.

Anita Brookner

#100. In fairy tales, love strikes like lightning. In real life, lightning burns. It can even kill you.

Neil Strauss