Real Quotes

And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about that bottom line. So it's nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine.

To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something.

I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

We're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a charge, because they keep it interesting all the time.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.

I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us.

The Internet has really democratized ideas. There are no real gatekeepers any more, because if you have a great idea, and you put it online, people will find it and it will get in front of who it needs to get in front of.

We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.

Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person.