Realising Quotes - Page 2

• It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kids, Years, Mind

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• Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they're older. People just don't realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, People, Leader

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• And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

  Michael Moore

  Powerful, Political, Want

  Interview with Andrew Collins, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2002.

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• I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.

  Heather Mills

  England, Would Be, States

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• When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Dream, Stupid, Taken

  "Chris O'Dowd: 'People try to set me up with their sisters'". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2011.

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• There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room.

  Helen Mirren

  Successful, Scary, Rooms

  "Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2011.

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• There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Thinking, People, Secret

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• Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

  Ian Hacking

  Race, Hacking, Humans

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• I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Acceptance, Animal, Men

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• Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Time, Real

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.35, Bertrand Russell

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• My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

  Jo Brand

  Dad, Teenager, Men

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• We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

  George H. W. Bush

  West, East, Operations

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• Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.

  A. S. Byatt

  Hate, Mirrors, Self

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• Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

  Nicolas Cage

  Father, Years, Changed

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• I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.

  Chuck Close

  Thinking, Seems

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• I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.

  Harlan Coben

  Real, Thinking, Friendly

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• Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

  Georges Duhamel

  Humble, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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• I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

  Sheena Easton

  Mother, Smart, Taken

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• I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.

  Delta Goodrem

  Hair, Long, Important

  "'I'm fit and strong now. I feel blessed'". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.

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• Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

  Bjork

  People, Sake, Conservative

  "'Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age'". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.

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• At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

  Mark Haddon

  Jobs, Children, Fiction

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.

  Larry Hagman

  Travel, Kids, Texas

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• I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Self Esteem, Issues, Lucky

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• I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.

  Simon Hoggart

  Home, Thinking, People

  "Simon Hoggart's week: a stalking horse from the same stable" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2013.

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• I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.

  Antonio Banderas

  Thinking, Government

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