Realised Quotes - Page 12

• It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

  Gilberto Hernandez

  School, Artist, Abnormal

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• The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  People, Understanding, Way

  "Blood Diamond - Leonardo DiCaprio interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.

  Caterina Murino

  Rome, Acting, Done

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• I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.

  Sophie Hannah

  Jobs, Husband, College

  "Sophie Hannah: 'It's surprising how many poems turn out to be about sex'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2014.

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• The extension of power offered by a pony, the ease and speed of movement, the tapping of unsuspected courage, the satisfaction of collaboration with another creature and of controlling it in order to improve the collaboration, the joy of fussing over it - of loving it - these, from the age of about eight to sixteen were the most completely realised delights of my life.

  Diana Athill

  Horse, Eight, Order

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• I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.

  Michelle Dockery

  New York, Couple, Thinking

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• I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised.

  Brendan Coyle

  Dream, Jobs, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

  Catherine Tate

  Doubt, Needs, Nagging

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• When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

  Catherine Tate

  Personality, Red, Would Be

  "What I'm not is a cheery person". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling.

  Matthew Rhys

  Numbers, Interesting, Acting

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• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  Dakota Fanning

  Player, Grandparent, Tennis

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• My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

  Antonia Thomas

  Father, Musical, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. ... He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.

  Humphry Davy

  Burdens Of Life, Land, Brain

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• I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.

  Richard Meale

  Mean, Composer, Composing

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.

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• Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course that he had left - or, rather, the true course he had obscurely been seeking all this time. (Last line of the story The Adventure of a Photographer )

  Italo Calvino

  Adventure, Circles, Stories

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• An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Home, America

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• When I went to the scientific doctor
  I realised what a lust there was in him to wreak his so-called science on me
  and reduce me to the level of a thing.
  So I said: Good-morning! and left him.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Morning, Doctors, Lust

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6965, Delphi Classics

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• But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.

  Stephen Spender

  Reading, Civilization, Creative

  1980 Journal entry, 4 Jan.

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• My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, Those things that hurt instruct! I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them.

  Abdul Kalam

  Hurt, People, Suffering

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.38, Universities Press

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• I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming
  American.

  Luc Sante

  America, Culture, Becoming

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• I think I was a feminist before the word was invented. By the time I came across feminist books by American or European writers, I realised that there was an articulate way or a language to express all these feelings that I had had for years and years and so I became a raging feminist as a young woman.

  Andrew Denton

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• I never felt I was missing anything ever until one day I stopped long enough to smell the roses outside of this little treadmill I'd gotten myself onto and I realised there were other things that I like that I didn't know. I realised I didn't like certain things in my life that I then got rid of and it just opened the door to a plethora of other things that entered.

  Sandra Bullock

  Doors, Smell, Long

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If we've been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.

  Charlie Munger

  Fall, School, Successful

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• I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

  Bronwyn Bishop

  Leadership, Two, People

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• With a little inner pirouette of excitement I realised just how much there was to look forward to tomorrow. The thought of being all day naked in the sun was delicious enough in itself, but there was the whole of our new world to explore.

  Lucy Irvine

  Naked, Looks, World

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