Really Quotes

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

I got married really fast and really young.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

I am really cautious about what I say and do.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

Most great records really start with the drums.

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.