Real Quotes

I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'

If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life.

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it.

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.

You dread that there will be real problems during filming.

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.

Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I'm hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.