Real Life Quotes - Page 31

• Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

  Bai Ling

  Real, Acting

  Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com. May 8, 2009.

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• Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person.

  Derek Luke

  Real, Better Person, Made

  "Derek Luke: 'I was molested, and I have my own personal fight'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.

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• I think real life couples on screen are kind of deadly. For the most part, they're kind of deadly. You'd be surprised. Unless they're falling in love onscreen for the first time, you don't have quite the same energy for some reason.

  Amy Poehler

  Falling In Love, Couple, Real

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• The thought processes that go through my head when I'm playing a game compared to the thought processes in real life are very, very different. And they're more interesting to me than what you think about when you're doing the dishes, cleaning the yard, watching TV, driving or watching a movie.

  John Romero

  Real, Thinking, Games

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• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  Lance Reddick

  Real, Organization, Wire

  "Masters of SciFi – Lance Reddick Discusses Playing Darth Vader on 'Lost' and Captain Kirk on 'Fringe'". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. September 2008.

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• I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).

  George Saunders

  Real, Believe, Mean

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

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• I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

  R. L. Stine

  Real, Book, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you take real-life circumstances and take out all the pauses then you have a thriller. It has to be non-stop, high stakes and fascinating all the time. Real life is like that from time to time.

  Hank Phillippi Ryan

  Real, Life Is Like, Thrillers

  "Interview: Hank Phillippi Ryan, 'The Other Woman'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 4, 2012.

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• People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Real, People, Angry

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• I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

  Holland Taylor

  Strong, Real, Mean

  "Holland Taylor stirs things up on 'Two and a Half Men'". Associated Press, www.today.com. August 10, 2004.

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• I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

  Nancy Travis

  Real, Simple, Wish

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

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• What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

  Tristan Wilds

  Beautiful, Real, People

  "Getting to the End of The Wire with Tristan Wilds". Interview with Jon Hein, www.tvguide.com. March 3, 2008.

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• A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.

  Chris Ware

  Real, Book, Lines

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• I like being a leader in real life.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Real, Leader, Being A Leader

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• I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

  Steven Yeun

  Honesty, Real, People

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

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• Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Wise, Real

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• ...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.

  Olive Ann Burns

  Meaningful, Real, Book

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• It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.

  Willa Cather

  Real, Book, Writing

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• At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it?

  Michael Cunningham

  Real, Writing, Mean

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• We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Truth, Real, Stories

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• I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

  Mike Leigh

  Real, Trying, Life Experience

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 23, 2008.

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• The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

  James Mangold

  Real, Acting, Boundaries

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

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• I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life.

  Kate Mara

  Crazy, Real, Want

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

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• I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

  Don McLean

  Fun, Real, Teenager

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• In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.

  Allison Williams

  Hurt, New York, Couple

  "‘Girls’ Star Allison Williams On Her Masturbation Scene, Lena Dunham And More". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2012.

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