Real Life Quotes - Page 6

• I ride really well and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked. I love them, but there's been very few of them made. I never wanted to play a guy who was acting like a cowboy. I wanted to play someone who had a real life, but was also trapped into situations.

  Lance Henriksen

  Real, Gun, Cowboy

  Source: collider.com

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• You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing with characters and watching these characters take on real life - that's all you care about.

  Clint Eastwood

  Real, Character, Creating

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and they'd win awards. But in real life if someone does that they'd be considered weird.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Movie, Real, Winning

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• It occurred to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

  Alicia Witt

  Real, People, Cameras

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

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• I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.

  Kate McKinnon

  Real, Talking, Voice

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

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• In a dream world, I would love to be a master pastry chef, because it combines something I love doing baking with something I'm not good at doing baking. BUT! Practically, if I weren't writing and doing comedy things, I'd like to teach kids to read. I would be good at that in real life.

  Josh Gondelman

  Dream, Real, Writing

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• I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy: David Gemmell, Raymond E. Feist. It's a nice escape from the world. As much as I do love real-life stories, they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt.

  Henry Cavill

  Hurt, Real, Nice

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

  Jason Isaacs

  Strong, Real, Character

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

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• It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

  Candice Bergen

  Running, Real, Risk

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• Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Real, People

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.17, SPCK

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• As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Real, Life Is, Guilty

  1958 Nabokov's Dozen, bibliographical note.

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• Child pornography is taboo. There are really no such things as snuff films. That's a legend. But movies are like pieces of dreams, and we don't need to go into those dreams. Those dreams are beyond. Child pornography - it's horrible. Human suffering is a horrible thing in real life.

  John Carpenter

  Dream, Children, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In real life I'm obviously a lot more shy, but once I'm on set and in costume and I'm hidden behind the person I'm playing I feel quite free to experiment.

  Isla Fisher

  Real, Shy, Costumes

  "Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment interview, movieweb.com. June 29, 2009.

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• I love when I get to play these characters that are bigger than life. There are roles in animation that I never get to do in real life - and it appeals to my ego as an actor to play the Queen of Everything. I admit it.

  Virginia Madsen

  Queens, Real, Character

  "Virginia Madsen Is Wonder Woman's Queen Hipolyta". movieweb.com. January 07, 2009.

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• Everyone has complexes about their body or their ability and skills and dream of a rebirth into something different. I myself have always had that secret desire to become something completely different and enact revenge on certain things. So I do that through my movies. My desires become reality in the movie because it can't become real in real life.

  Takashi Miike

  Dream, Revenge, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes I don't want to go out and socialize; I just want to watch my favorite shows and comedians. But then I have to remember that it is important to participate in life if you want to portray real life on screen.

  Josh Peck

  Real, Comedian, Important

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was a kid, I used to paint miniatures. There were famous people in the miniature community from forums online. I went to some big event and I saw them in real life and I was so starstruck.

  Ansel Elgort

  Real, Kids, People

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Song, Real, Trying

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• Towards the end, one of them [children in "The White Queen"] was older than I was in real life.

  Max Irons

  Real, Ends

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would get me a record deal, or what I thought I was supposed to make because that's what I was seeing in mainstream. I didn't know myself; I didn't find myself musically or, in real life.

  Danny Brown

  Real, Long, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

  Tom Stoppard

  Real, Biographies, Mesh

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• I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves me with less time, but I've tried to balance things out - not just spending time with Linux all the time, but having a real job and a real life at the same time.

  Linus Torvalds

  Jobs, Children, Real

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• It's a mystery that thing about chemistry because often people who hate each other in real life and hate each other on the set have great chemistry on the screen. And people who love each other in real life and love each other on the set have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever.

  Helen Mirren

  Life And Love, Hate, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

  Morten Tyldum

  Real, Years, Six Months

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• God is life; and in that life which is God there are no years. ... The human sense of life is not your real life.

  Joel S. Goldsmith

  Real, Years, Life Is

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