Really Not Quotes

#1. I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all.

Diane Kruger

#2. I was an executive before I was a producer, and I've seen franchise fever grow, over the course of my career. The one thing that people always forget is that it's only a franchise if audiences really want to see more of it. It's up to them. It's really not up to us.

Nina Jacobson

#3. I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really.

Tom Baker

#4. I was in China this year and I spent three weeks there with no luggage, in a really not very nice place and without anything except my passport and my wallet. You're a long way from home and you've got no phone and you can't get in touch with anybody.

Jill Douglas

#5. They were worlds apart in everything but the simplicity of their humanity, and so they were really not apart at all.

Paul Gallico

#6. I'm really not an angry vegan, but human beings are f***ing rude.

Russell Simmons

#7. If I could go back and talk to the me who was just starting to do comedy, I would have told myself to relax and not worry about things happening right away. That's a mistake a lot of people make - they think a year is a long time and it's really not.

Christian Finnegan

#8. A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or rather it's about feelings in the abstract.

Steven Soderbergh

#9. It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.

Jeannette Walls

#10. All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.

Gina Philips

#11. The final word on the political non-implications of group differences must go to Gloria Steinem: There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all the other occupations should be open to everyone.

Steven Pinker

#12. ...he began to feel that he was really not talking to the woman at all, but that she was, with her strange smooth hair and her quiet way of drinking, his inner self, the true and only companion he could talk to lately, the one remaining friend...

M.F.K. Fisher

#13. On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content always lends itself to the form, and it's really not mathematics.

Paul Dano

#14. I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.

Martina Mcbride

#15. I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet. But I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first. What if the other person doesn't want to be bothered?

Lauren Barnholdt

#16. When you are comparing, you are really not looking at the sunset which is there, but you are looking at it in order to compare it with something else. So comparison prevents you from looking fully.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#17. He's an artist in London. We don't see him much."
Tom gave him one of his quick, considering glances and asked, "Doesn't he live with you?"
"No," said Indigo, finally saying out loud what he had known now for a long, long time. "Not really. Not anymore.

Hilary McKay

#18. The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.

Jane McGonigal

#19. There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot.

Mike Rowe

#20. I think the problem in the Republican Party is really not money. I think they've got lots of it. I think it is theory of the case - why are we here, what is our message, how to connect to the real world.

Bob Woodward

#21. I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in the barometer of success and how much money you make. But if you really just aspire to a life in the arts, it's really not a barometer at all.

Ethan Hawke

#22. There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

John Powell

#23. Baby, I don't feel pain. Ever. (Talon)
Really? Not even a little? (Sunshine)
It's a waste of time and energy. It also drains the mind and makes it weary. (Talon)
But without pain, you can't have joy. It's the balance that makes us appreciate the extreme. (Sunshine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#24. When you're hurt very badly in your childhood, the area that it has the greatest effect on is relationships. Once you feel like you can't trust people, once you feel like that they don't care about you, that they're really not going to take care of you, it gets very difficult in relationships.

Joyce Meyer

#25. Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

Jack Davenport

#26. When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.

James Gunn

#27. I want you to notice that right now, this instant, we are having a conversation. It's really not hard, now, is it? Think you we can carry this on for the rest of the day? (Callie)

Kinley MacGregor

#28. A choice made having devastating consequences for another is really not a choice. It is an act.

Beem Weeks

#29. Most people don't think of Los Angeles as a theatre town, and that you have to go to New York to be in theatre, and it's really not true.

Susan Egan

#30. Yeah, I guess I'm economical. Not because I try, but because I'm really not that interested in shoes.

Anna Torv

#31. You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I pretended to. I am really not quite sure which - I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other.

Henrik Ibsen

#32. I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#33. I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

Carol Burnett

#34. It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

John Henry Newman

#35. I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry.
And I know you do the same things too,
So we're really not that different, me and you.

Collin Raye

#36. I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.

Christian McBride

#37. So now you're on the run,' Warrick said wistfully. 'Travelling the Dark Highway, a lone wolf. With your friend, who is another wolf. Two lone wolves. Two wolves, really. Not really alone. Two wolves in a car. Travelling. One of them naked and bloody. The other with her ass hanging out.

Derek Landy

#38. Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

George Edward Woodberry

#39. If you loveach other, whatever happens you can deal with it, you can work it out. Because if there's one thing I've learned, it's that it's really not much fun having an adventure with someone you're not in love with.

Lisa Jewell

#40. Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities.

Marvin Harris

#41. I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in.

Immortal Technique

#42. I often get painted as the guy who's trying to tell other people what to make and what to like, and that's really not my goal, but I believe so passionately that games can be more than a lot of people think they can.

Warren Spector

#43. I know how to play comedy when it's needed. So even when it's really not there, my facial expressions are really great. I have a lot of facial expressions in my face, you know.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#44. Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

Paul Twitchell

#45. Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.

Michael Leunig

#46. I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.

David Suchet

#47. Despite all the labels, in most ways I'm really not different from anyone else. I guess if you had to label me, you could say I'm like the girl next door. I'm like the girl a few doors down.

Ellen DeGeneres

#48. Mom, I remember Lizzie," Hart said. "She's really not my type." "She has a brother," Wes said, from his lounge. "He's not my type, either," Hart said.

John Scalzi

#49. But it's not really Chinese, is it?'
Logan was thoughtful for a moment. "I don't know. I guess you'd say it's really not if you look back thousands of years. But I don't think that way. Lots of things start out not Chinese and end up that way.

Ken Liu

#50. The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.

Zack Snyder

#51. I am really not tired, which I almost wonder at; for we must have walked at least a mile in this wood. Do not you think we have? '
'Not half a mile,' was his sturdy answer; for he was not yet so much in love as to measure distance, or reckon time, with feminine lawlessness.

Jane Austen

#52. There are now college degrees in game design and interactive media, so if I were starting now, I would probably do that. When I started, you had to break into design from QA or programming or art, but it's really not true anymore.

Jane Jensen

#53. The Bible is really not a religious book but a divine manual written by the manufacturer of humanity by which the product man is supposed to live. If we learn those principles and obey them, then we find that the process of failure to success becomes more inevitability than experiment.

Myles Munroe

#54. Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about ... whatever. Now we're walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk had a fight with a robot.

Simon Pegg

#55. That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.

Stephen Cambone

#56. I love driving at Monaco but the rest of it, well, I can absolutely take it or leave it. It's extremely pretentious and really not my cup of tea.

Mark Webber

#57. I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

George Michael

#58. Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.

John Kessel

#59. But hatred was really not an emotion which he could sustain for any length of time, unless it was the obverse side of love.

John Le Carre

#60. English poetic education should, really, not begin with The Canterbury Tales, not with the Odyssey, not even with Genesis, but with Song of Amergin.

Robert Graves

#61. I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.

Edward St. Aubyn

#62. It is really not how much you can get out of life that matters; it is how much you can put into it that counts. What will you contribute to life today?

Bill Phillips

#63. I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of.

John Krasinski

#64. I'm really not good at dressing up and being glamorous.

Sienna Miller

#65. Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.

Carine Roitfeld

#66. It was crazy the way I could break this glass, shatter it so quickly with just one false move, but I could not kill it, not really, not for a million years.

Jillian Cantor

#67. I've been bothered about time generally and our tripartite division of time into past, present, and future. I think I know what the past is, and I think I know what future is, but I'm really not comfortable with the notion of present.

Martin Seligman

#68. I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.

H. G. Bissinger

#69. When I'm making a movie, I never watch the dailies. I see the movie once and that's it. It's really not about that for me. It's not about the externals. When I'm on a set, I don't want to see it. I want to be subjective in it. That's my habit now.

Lance Henriksen

#70. Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not.

Michael Jai White

#71. Like Pi, we all have tigers within us. Lil demons which are a part of us. If you can't run away from them, welcome them, feed them and listen to what they will have to say. There is really not a whole lot to be afraid of.

Daniel Gottlieb

#72. I'm really not trying to do everything that comes to mind because that's when it can be dangerous. For instance, I believe as much as possible, how your camera moves and flies around should be limited to the physics of how you could do it in real life.

Taika Waititi

#73. There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.

Joyce Carol Oates

#74. My elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement. And a movement to do what? To restore common sense. A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.

John Kasich

#75. To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Stephen Covey

#76. The great evolutionary biologist J B S Haldane (1892-1964), on being asked by a cleric what biology could say about the Creator, entertainingly replied, 'I'm really not sure, except that the Creator, if he exists, must have an inordinate fondness of beetles.

David Beerling

#77. I would say that the evocative qualities of music are usually put there in post-production in the reverb. It's really not much about the musicians as the engineering. It's post-production that's being done by the musician at the time.

Stephin Merritt

#78. I'm really not into that super-crazy-colour, smiley-faces-on-the-front-of-your-dress look. That's not my thing. You're not going to see me in pink. Or anything frilly. Or a tutu. Or bows.

Erin Wasson

#79. I'll watch a Keanu Reeves movie and I'll go, 'Wow, he's really not a very good actor!'

Ashton Kutcher

#80. He wondered if this, more than guilt, was what had been holding him back. It wasn't that he was punishing himself as much as it was that he didn't really want anything anymore. But was that true? Did he really not want anything? What did he want to do? What did he want, period?

Heidi Cullinan

#81. I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.

RuPaul

#82. Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#83. The thing about passing out, it's really not as bad as it sounds. Rather, it's more like your body says, you go on ahead
I'm just going to take a moment.

Tiffany Snow

#84. And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad.

Mats Sundin

#85. No, this is my revenge. I am giving you just what you want, I'm releasing you. And yet I'm really not. I'll inflict torments on you, subtle torments, day after day, year after year- that's why you're necessary to me.

Buddhadeva Bose

#86. I'm really not the party type. I more like to have friends over at the house and chill. I've never been the super party type. But for the 18th birthday, you got to party. And then 21 is going to be even bigger.

Jacob Latimore

#87. I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

Paul Ryan

#88. I'm really not that fierce.

Iyanla Vanzant

#89. I don't take jokes from other people. It's really not cool to steal jokes from anybody. It's not cool to steal anything from anybody. Jokes are no different.

Brian Regan

#90. You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.

Ani DiFranco

#91. I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.

Lucas Papademos

#92. Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person."
Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, "Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal?

Dean Koontz

#93. I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

Jeff Koons

#94. I need your submission too, but only if it's real. If you're really not feeling it, then don't pretend. Make me earn it.

Bianca Sommerland

#95. It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.

Andre Rieu

#96. Nothing is ours really, not even our own souls!

Marie Of Romania

#97. Jared's gray eyes bore into hers. His face filled with emotion, and his eyes looked to be just as tear-filled. Do you really not know the reason why I came? I came back for you. I'll always come back for you.

Chanda Hahn

#98. I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far.

Lance Henriksen

#99. Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.

Benicio Del Toro

#100. I'm not Metallica, you can tell that I'm really not that angry in most of my songs.

William Fitzsimmons