Real Quotes

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags.

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

I'm real excited about being on CBS and hosting this show. I have been studying all of the great CBS shows. I think I'm prepared, so if you're ready, let's have the first item up for bids.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did.

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers.

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

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.