Real Quotes

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.

Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think that I write songs that sound fresh and sensual in kind of a layered, lush way. But I also think that they are real, and that's why I wanted to call the record 'Inside Out.'

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut.

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

I love all of Albert Brooks' work from 'Defending Your Life' back to his first film, 'Real Life', but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.

I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it right! At our concerts we'll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we'll be real sexy.

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.

Having children with someone is the real bond.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good.