The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
“Everything was real, not perfect. And yet that's what had made it so perfect.” — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it. — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Playing a real-life character, as an actor, gives me real high because there is so much of research material available in front… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry, but this isn’t a movie or a play—there is no convenient third-act rescue that gives us an easy solution. This… — Scott Sigler Copy Share Image
“You two are suggesting that something supernatural is going on here, but this isn't a horror movie. In real life there are… — D.J. MacHale Copy Share Image
Vince was so great at the 'Mr. McMahon' character that some people think he wouldn't want to help people in real life,… — Jim Ross Copy Share Image
What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy. — Dakota Blue Richards Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life. — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
If you are watching a fairy tale, that's why you go to fairy tales: you want these uncomplicated stories and uncomplicated characters.… — Clare-Hope Ashitey Copy Share Image
The photographers I worked alongside loved the news cycle and the hustle and getting that front page of the newspaper. But I… — Daniel Berehulak Copy Share Image
How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges,… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
A person who is a comedian does comedy in real life, too. But then there are others, too, who are very good… — Johnny Lever Copy Share Image
I don't like to think that people recognize who I am when I'm out and about, and anyone who comes up to… — Susanna Lau Copy Share Image
The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from… — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
“Standing there, under the bleak fluorescents of my tiny one-room apartment, there was no escaping the truth. In real life, I was… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“Julie was still talking. “No. No, sir. Do not, I repeat, do not approach them. . . . Why?” She rolled her… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
“How, then, to proceed? My method is: I imagine a meter mounted in my forehead, with “P” on this side (“Positive”) and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
How to be a rapper in 2012: Wear skinny jeans, rap about how high drunk you get, pretend you can afford designer… — Brian Zilinek Copy Share Image
“[L]et any one transport himself to the time when living, present miracles were believed in; … when they lived only in the… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Choosing sides, the captain of the Red Team says, “We’ll give you our best -pitcher.…” And we’ll take the kid who picks… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Levin was almost of the same age as Oblonsky; their intimacy did not rest merely on champagne. Levin had been the friend… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“So we pour in data from the past to fuel the decision-making mechanisms created by our models, be they linear or nonlinear.… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
I find it funny when people who arent friends in real life are friends on Facebook. — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities. — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
Even though it says we are friends on Facebook, it doesnt mean we are friends in real life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image