Real Life Quotes - Page 17

• When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should dress every day, in real life, like we're playing onstage. I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. Or maybe helps you pick up chicks.

  Julian Casablancas

  Real, Clothes, Giving

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• Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

  Kyle Chandler

  Real, Men, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Song, Real, Writing

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• Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.

  Harlan Coben

  Real, Writing, Hands

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• In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

  Harlan Coben

  Real, Coincidence, Novel

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• Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

  Diablo Cody

  Real, Self, Paris

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• A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

  Joseph Conrad

  Love, Real, Men

  Under Western Eyes pt. 1, ch. 1 (1911)

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• Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.

  Lauren Conrad

  Real, Scripts, Life Is

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• On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.

  Alice Cooper

  Real, Golf, Makeup

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

  Ice Cube

  Movie, Confused, Real

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• As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Real, Roles, Actors

  "Under their skins". Interview with Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2008.

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• I don't have a brother in real life.

  Louis C. K.

  Brother, Real

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• If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.

  Louis C. K.

  Real, Character, Eye

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• I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

  Park Chan-wook

  Real, Violent Films, Because I Can

  "Shock horror! Park Chan-Wook is refreshingly normal". Interview with Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2009.

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• I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy. Besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.

  Willem Dafoe

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Willem and able" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.

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• I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Real, Drifting Off, Talking

  Interview on ABC's "20/20", abcnews.go.com. February 13, 2006.

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• 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.

  Jack Dee

  Real, People, Laughing

  "Question time: Jack Dee". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2009.

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• On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are "solved" to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Real, Hands, Police

  "The Criminal Trial Is Not About Justice for the Victim" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2011.

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• We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Real, Heart, Broken

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• No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Real, People, Groups

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• I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

  Bob Dylan

  Real, People, Design

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• In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Real, Care, Stereotype

  "Question time: Sophie Ellis-Bextor". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2009.

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• Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Real, Guy, Watches

  "'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel' set visit: Q&A with R. Lee Ermey". Group interview, www.horror.com. November 21, 2005.

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• One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.

  Dakota Fanning

  Real, Different, Favorites Things

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• We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

  Sigmund Freud

  Real, Long, Purpose

  Sigmund Freud (2008). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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