Real Quotes

I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh.

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.

And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It's not real.

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.

I've never scratched, or punched, or slapped anybody in my real life.

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.

These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.

I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.

Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.

I've been given an amazing opportunity and I could not be more grateful. But I also know that all this will eventually die off. It's not real. It will go away and then you'll go away and then, I don't know, I'll be left sitting in some English hotel room.

Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people.

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.