Real life Quotes · Page 18

Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too.

— Audrey Niffenegger

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking

— Anita Roddick

What I do as a character on screen is different from who I am in real life.

— Mallika Sherawat

Always think in a negative way, because the positive thinking never exists in real life.

— Robin Huff

Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

— Charlotte Moss

There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

Playing a real-life character is very intriguing.

— Pratik Gandhi

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

— Ben Whishaw

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

— Joseph Conrad

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I…

— Michael Shannon

When you are doing a real life story, it requires a lot of sensitivity, a lot of responsibility.

— Shefali Shah

“Real life is full of boring transition moments. Weed out those moments and settings for your reader.”

— Denise Jaden

It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the…

— Morten Tyldum

The 2 most common lies you hear: 1. We will always be together. 2. You will use algebra in real life.

— Anonymous

A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.

— Christopher Darden

“I think the way I feel about the internet is the way some people feel about the ocean. It's so huge and…

— Becky Albertalli

I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show Star Trek: The Next Generation. But then I like…

— Brent Spiner

“My books rustled by like a military of ducks. My mother had never liked my books. She'd said they kept me from…

— Rivka Galchen

I don't feel qualified to comment on whether or not the internet has damaged collaboration and creativity. That is not my experience...…

— Horace Panter

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm…

— Corin Nemec

“And finally, I understood that real life - with all its ups and downs, complications, broken hearts, and triumphs - was a…

— Talli Roland

“Sometimes love isn't enough and sometimes it isn't the right kind of love. People like to think that just because they're in…

— S.H. Kolee

When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this…

— Ben Feldman

“In the first place, good people are rarely suspicious; they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing;…

— William March

“But, no, Nathan was utterly unable to involve himself in anything not entirely of his own making. The closest Nathan could ever…

— Philip Roth

“Do you know that, maybe, I shall leave off grieving over the crime and sin of my life? for such a life…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Listen, listen!" I interrupted her. "Forgive me if I tell you something else… I tell you what, I can't help coming here…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“If you will, for just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next…

— Lev Grossman

“Jamie used the time away from me to do some soul-searching. She finally also did something she’d thought about for a long…

— Noah Galloway

I think challenges are what any decent writer would be all about. If you actually do find your slide and grease it,…

— Dan Simmons

“So that drawing." Ian extended and arm to full length and pulled down three ceramic bowls from the top shelf of our…

— Megan Squires

We never have the power to change anyone. But we can always be the reason for their change.

— Collins Hasty

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

— Celine Dion

Nothing is worth without struggle in real life.

— Ally Mbululo

Real life is not Disney, where there's the goodies and the baddies.

— Nicola Coughlan

“In real life, you only get one shot at the homicide crime scene.”

— Vernon J. Geberth

I think love isn't doomed, of course, but in real life, love doesn't always work out.

— Makoto Shinkai

Sometimes people are blind, stepping into the mud, but only in real life

— Serdyuk Oksana

Since doing comedy, I'm less of a show-off in real life.

— Joe Lycett