Top 100 Quotes About Real People
#1. We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people.
Paul Reiser
#2. 'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.
Joel Kinnaman
#3. In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.
Simon Beaufoy
#4. I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.
Rick Bass
#5. Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.
Richard Avedon
#6. It's what we live for, to be able to make great illusions. The thing about 'Entourage' is everything we do is realistic. We go to the real places, we shoot on location. We get the real people. It's a perfect marriage between fact and fiction.
Adrian Grenier
#7. Real people complicate things. Real people die. Real people can be killed by other people.
Julie Cross
#8. Go out and find some real people. Listen to their stories. Don't ask for the main point. Let the story run its course. Like flowing water, it will find its own way, at its own pace. And if you've got patience, you'll learn more than you might imagine. - T
Bernadette Jiwa
#9. It's always the thing when you're shooting out and about with real people and you could get a couple of bogeys like sticking their face in front of the camera, like 'Hey!'
Joel Kinnaman
#10. When people ask "Do you put real people in your books?" the answer is that, for me, it is quite impossible to write about anyone I know, or have ever spoken to, or indeed have even heard about! For some reason, it kills them for me stone dead.
Agatha Christie
#11. My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.
Tom Chapin
#12. One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.
Peter Carey
#13. I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.
Isak Dinesen
#14. It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.
Cynthia Lord
#15. As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.
James Surowiecki
#16. What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.
Jock Sturges
#17. When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As a consequence, I couldn't cope with the real world and real people very well. That in itself became life threatening, so I had to stop drawing so much and learn how to cope with people.
Robert Crumb
#18. Country Music has always changed for the times, if you listen to the recordings from the 50's to 60's to 70's, to now, the message is still there, basic down to earth songs about real people, it the music that's been updated. Some of it I like, but still prefer the traditional sound.
Mark Chesnutt
#19. I don't think you want to hurt businesses that are making $250,000 or $500,000. Those are the real people who created the opportunity to put people to work.
Richard Hanna
#20. Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.
Leonard Alfred George Strong
#21. All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.
Allan Massie
#22. A lot of people question how talented I am. But I'm a real dude and I know real things and I've seen real people get their head blown off.
Young Jeezy
#23. I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.
Josh Radnor
#24. They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
Bobby Seale
#25. I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#26. Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
Vanessa Redgrave
#27. Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never intended to be understood as real people, who actually lived in history.
John Shelby Spong
#28. I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
Wyclef Jean
#29. Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.
Mike Huckabee
#30. The harder part of doing a real story is that there are real people and you have a responsibility to not just go crazy with their lives and have them do things which are not their character, that they then have to live with.
Scott Walker
#31. Facebook succeeded because it was about real people having a presence on the Internet. There were all these other social networking sites people had, but they were all about fictional people.
Peter Thiel
#32. I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.
Jerry Falwell
#33. Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have.
Jonah Sachs
#34. I have so many people in my head, I can't keep up with the real people around me. But it's okay, I'm a writer.
Shannon Taylor Vannatter
#35. Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#36. The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.
Charles Handy
#37. I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back.
Karolyn Grimes
#38. Ultimately, your economy has to be measured in the real eyes of real people, not simply in statistics that appear in newspapers about the unemployment rate and so forth.
Marco Rubio
#39. Twilight' has a supernatural reference to it with werewolves and vampires. 'Harry Potter' has magic. 'The Hunger Games' is about real people put into extreme situations and circumstances.
Isabelle Fuhrman
#40. I see nobody on the road,' said Alice. 'I only wish I had such eyes,' the King remarked in a fretful tone. 'To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance, too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!
Lewis Carroll
#41. In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people.
Jonah Hill
#42. It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call on one's judgement.
Sara Sheridan
#43. I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.
Jody Watley
#44. He liked churchyards. The graves themselves, were, of course, important, being the final resting places for the earthly remains of people-real people just like himself. They were valuable tributes from loving relatives, who'd cared about those people in life; the gravestones were historical records.
Charmian Hussey
#45. Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.
Bill Hybels
#46. Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.
Paul Park
#47. When you're with real people, you don't have to be with virtual people.
Connor Franta
#48. I can only play characters that I feel like are real people and in a complete way and in such a whole way that if I fake any aspect of it I will have failed them and literally they're slaughtered.
Kristen Stewart
#49. A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.
Joel Bakan
#50. 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
#51. I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.
Lloyd Kaufman
#52. Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting - it's exciting to be in that dialogue.
Bill Ayers
#53. I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.
Simon Beaufoy
#54. I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
Bill Hybels
#55. There are so many real people around, telling children what and how to do, that a boy has to run off down a beach, even if it's only in his head, to get by himself in his own world.
Ray Bradbury
#56. It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.
Jan Karon
#57. I enjoy real people, down-to-earth people who are true to themselves and honest to your face - good or bad.
Christina Aguilera
#58. Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
Nate Powell
#59. Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.
Tony Scott
#60. From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.
Billy Crudup
#61. We are, quite rightly, not interested in the theoretical issue of suffering and evil; rather, we are torn apart by what is happening to real people, to those we know and love.
Stanley Hauerwas
#62. I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.
William Devane
#63. Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.
James Comey
#64. And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.
Chuck Palahniuk
#65. I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.
Aaron Koblin
#66. I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy', because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.
Guy Pearce
#67. I'm not making a movie about the real people. I'm making a movie about what they did, and what happened to them. But I will create characters so that I can have the freedom to make them say and do what I want. The real-life journalists were fine with that.
Richard Shepard
#68. We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.
Bob Odenkirk
#69. Whenever you're telling a story about true-life events and about real people, there's a tremendous responsibility-slash-burden to get it right.
Tom McCarthy
#70. I loved books like people; I liked real people less.
Lauren Groff
#71. Christianity has always been the hope of God through Jesus played out in the lives of real people living in real circumstances.
Doug Pagitt
#72. They, our parents, lived through a great catastrophe, and we needed to live through it, too. Otherwise we'd never become real people. That's how we're made. If we just work each day and eat well - that would be strange and intolerable! We
Svetlana Alexievich
#73. We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.
Arash Ferdowsi
#74. I used to watch 'Cagney & Lacey' with my mum back in the day. I can't remember any of their storylines, but I remember really knowing these two friends like I would know real people.
Darren Boyd
#75. As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.
Jeffrey Kluger
#76. I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.
Hillary Clinton
#77. I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.
Robert Cormier
#78. I guess that my opinion of writing about real people is informed by defenses of Joyce Maynard's memoir, that the experiences were a part of my life as well, and that I have the right to write about my life.
Marie Calloway
#79. I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.
Kristin Gore
#80. There's only five real people in Hollywood. Everyone else is Mel Blanc.
Jack Benny
#81. No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
Nathan Fillion
#82. But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.
Marya Hornbacher
#84. Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.
Robert Kirkman
#85. But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.
Sheryl Sandberg
#86. When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have happened.
Alison Jackson
#87. And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.
James Denton
#88. Well, now, and there's - for every dollar the federal government spends, there's real people on the other side, and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers, that's going to affect hospitals and doctors and others.
Franklin Raines
#89. You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.
Tamora Pierce
#90. It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.
Michelle Huneven
#91. I never put real people into my fiction
I can't see the slightest point of that, when I have the alternative of inventing utterly subservient slave-people, whose every detail of appearance and behavior I can bend to serve my theme and plot.
Barbara Kingsolver
#93. In 'Property,' none of the characters are based on any real people, but the house is very much the house that I moved into in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Elizabeth McCracken
#94. Practicing mindfulness enables us to become a real person. When we are a real person, we see real people around us, and life is present in all its richness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#95. I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.
Chuck D
#96. You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. Mine is rooted in the real lives of real people, and it will bring real results if we have the courage to change.
Hillary Clinton
#97. Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.
Nicholas Sparks
#98. They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of meaning which stretches not only forward in the book but stems from before in the book.
John Steinbeck
#99. New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there.
Kristin Chenoweth
#100. In the United States especially, politics and economics don't mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that, as well-meaning as they may be, fail to account for the way real people respond to real-world incentives.
Steven D. Levitt
