Real Situations Quotes

#1. I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.

Mekhi Phifer

#2. Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#3. If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

Preston Sturges

#4. Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Chuck Jones

#5. I've done a lot of movies based on real people, real situations, non-fiction books, magazine articles, life rights.

Scott Rudin

#6. I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film.

Anna Camp

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I think it speaks to people in 2015, right now. We address real situations. It's real life! Everything that happens in 'Dope' could happen today.

Shameik Moore

#10. In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.

Peter York

#11. Our children need to see that faith matters, that it's relevant to our daily situations, that it's real.

Michelle Anthony

#12. I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.

Robert Cormier

#13. Stories are full of people who find that, in extreme situations, they're capable of so much more than they imagined they were. Real life is full of people who find that they're capable of so much less.

Amethyst Marie

#14. Kafkaesque

The term's meaning has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical.

Franz Kafka

#15. Our goal at Home Theater Films is to inspire and entertain our audience. We want to make great movies that everyone can enjoy and elevate them with contemporary, relatable characters that naturally demonstrate their faith in real world situations.

Corbin Bernsen

#16. Those who choose to have no real purpose in life are ever rootless and dissatisfied, tossed by their aimlessness into ever-changing situations.

Seneca.

#17. Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.

Ang Lee

#18. 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

#19. Our task in ourselves and in others is to transform right answers into automatic responses to real-life situations.

Dallas Willard

#20. You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.

Nelson DeMille

#21. I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me.

Phil Keoghan

#22. I love watching people be totally committed in a very real way to stupid situations. I find it's not so much trying to be funny, it's trying to be real in a messed up context. That's comedy to me.

Will Ferrell

#23. 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

Lance Reddick

#24. The best way to describe my work is comedy in a very, very real way. I'm not scared to look silly on camera. I take everyday situations we all go through and put a very real twist on it - things people can relate to.

Lilly Singh

#25. Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control. These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and there is a real need to reschedule the loans of these customers.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

#26. It is rare, though becoming more common with age that I am put into situations where I only half-heartedly balance on acting and being myself...a real nice dinner, relatives, etc.

Wesley Eisold

#27. I think "honest" sometimes gets used to describe a real depiction of real life. I don't think that's necessarily what we're doing. We created these fake characters and we're just trying to figure out what they would do in situations they enter into.

Paul Rust

#28. Success, in every case, comes from the alchemy of your health, your mind, your positive energy, and the real world situations you persistently improve for yourself.

James Altucher

#29. What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.

Charlie Cox

#30. When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.

Gustave Moreau

#31. I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

Viggo Mortensen

#32. I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.

Kristen Bell

#33. It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.

Lee Gutkind

#34. I would be a liar and my fans would hate me if I said to them, 'Oh, we're perfect and everything is great.' We have situations just like everyone else. We're not out in public trying to kill each other, but it's real. We love each other.

Mary J. Blige

#35. Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.

Oliver DeMille

#36. I valued the biblical foundation I got at Biola. I was able to take classes that strengthened my faith and helped me to better understand what I believe and how to, in a practical way, apply my faith in real-world situations.

John Thune

#37. When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

Mariel Hemingway

#38. I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#39. Real growth comes through intense, difficult, and challenging situations.

Kamal Ravikant

#40. Faeries are real. Magic is real. My tendency to greet dangerous situations by plunging in headfirst and seeing how long it takes to get myself covered head to toe in blood is also real.

Seanan McGuire

#41. There is no real bravery in getting paid to save someone's life. However, there is a large amount of bravery in a nurse break dancing at the hospital's Christmas party.

Shannon L. Alder

#42. It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct - if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

W. I. Thomas

#43. It's kind of a unique concept, but it's totally real, isn't it? ... I mean, these paramedics put themselves in incredibly stressful situations, are killing themselves to save our lives and they're not really regarded or appreciated.

Nicolas Cage

#44. Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#45. I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.

Jenji Kohan

#46. With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one must keep up, I maintain, nonetheless, that the real creative power is in the mind and heart of the composer.

Henry Mancini

#47. I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

Sanjay Dutt

#48. A 'real pastor' is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future.

Monica Johnson

#49. Going into hospitals and being able to meet kids that are in similar situations to those that the characters are facing in the 'Red Band Society' allows us to see the truth of these real humans' lives.

Nolan Sotillo

#50. In real-life situations, however, risks frequently increase without any corresponding increase in the payoff:

Albert O. Hirschman

#51. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things. I don't like superhero things, I like real-people things.

Will Gluck

#52. Real man is someone who handles his responsibilities. Take care of all of his responsibilities. No matter how, by any means take care of your situations.

Curtis Jackson

#53. To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

Nate Silver

#54. In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.

Akira Mori

#55. Vegans and vegetarians are commonly baited by nonvegetarians with "what if" scenarios that typically have no relevance to or bearing on most people's real-life situations.

Joanne Stepaniak

#56. In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Kevin Hart

#57. Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.

Alexander Ludwig

#58. What's right for most people in most situations isn't right for everyone in every situation. Real morality lies in following one's own heart.

Embeth Davidtz

#59. And I wondered if that was the problem with literature - it made sense only in theoretical situations and didn't often help in real life, where it took a hell of a lot more courage to live than to turn pages all alone, hidden away from the world in a corner or a bed or under a tree.

Matthew Quick

#60. I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality.

Emma Donoghue

#61. These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.

Jonathan Kellerman

#62. I don't like to talk hypotheticals. I deal with the real life situations. I treat every day as a blessing.

Tim Tebow

#63. People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.

Joel Stein

#64. To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives.

Debra Messing

#65. Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy.

Sharon Salzberg

#66. The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

Warren Bennis

#67. Shooting in real-life situations helps actors because they're competing against the noise and the wind. Out of that comes things that shift and change, in terms of tone, but not in terms of re-honing the whole sequence.

Tony Scott

#68. In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.

Tina Fey

#69. If you keep the situations real, the characters' behavior will be real and honest, too. If they're suddenly robbing a bank and exchanging snappy dialogue, well, I wouldn't even know how to write that.

Nicole Holofcener

#70. Dear Friends: As one who has experimented extensively with life in the home and community, using real people in true-life situations, I doubt that any playthings could prepare a child for one millionth of what is going to hit him in the teeth, ready or not.

Kurt Vonnegut

#71. Experience from the hard situations are the real teachers of school of life ".

Anita Palmer

#72. I want people to know that I'm a real person, and that I've been through normal situations, like crushes and heartbreaks.

Ashley Tisdale

#73. An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

Wentworth Miller

#74. To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature ... It's extraordinarily fascinating.

Max Von Sydow

#75. I ride really well and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked. I love them, but there's been very few of them made. I never wanted to play a guy who was acting like a cowboy. I wanted to play someone who had a real life, but was also trapped into situations.

Lance Henriksen

#76. When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#77. You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.

Pope John Paul II

#78. Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

Jason Robert Brown

#79. In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

Kurt Vonnegut

#80. in tactical situations, both in a real game and when solving a problem, look at both side's checks, captures, and threats, usually in that order!

Dan Heisman

#81. We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

Jerry Bruckheimer

#82. I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and suffering where the real books are people's minds and souls.

Sylvia Plath

#83. I always find the more you can draw on real life characters, people, situations, it works better. Certainly for designing a character, I prefer to draw on real people rather than other guys I've seen in movies, rather than 'here's my version of Clint Eastwood' or whoever.

Sharlto Copley