Real Quotes

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

I'm a real big country boy.

I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!

I'm a real director.

I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.

I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off - I figure I'd better get used to it.

So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.

I'm extremely happy, but I don't do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that's such a personal thing to me. I'd rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that.

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.

Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.

I think the media is a real demon.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

But I'm real conscious about what I do. I don't care what the label is. I'm looking at the outcome of it.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.

When I don't have to be at work, I want to be the real me - the comfortable me!

Now that the baby is coming, I will do a lot more balancing. I'm going to be a real mommy.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

People love to yammer on about things that aren't real.

And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.