Top 150 Be Real Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Be Real Quotes from famous people such as Bear Grylls, David Shields, YG, Bertrand Russell, Norm MacDonald, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
Bear Grylls
We’re completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you’re fictionalising; the moment you remember, you’re dreaming. It’s ludicrous that we have to pretend that non-fiction has to be real in some absolute sense.
David Shields
I just woke up one morning, and I painted my Maybach red – I wrapped it, matter of fact, red – and I thought, ‘I might as well change my album to ‘Still Brazy’ ’cause I gotta be real with myself.’
YG
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it’s inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are… You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.
Norm MacDonald
I wrote ‘Paava Kadhaigal’ the same way I wrote my feature films ‘Irudhi Sutru’ or ‘Soorarai Potru.’ I was more honest in this film rather, because you can afford to be real and get away with it.
Sudha Kongara
But at the end of the day, in order for me to reach my full potential, I need an environment that allows me to be me… The executives at Fox Sports get and embrace me. Fox Sports allows me to be real.
Jason Whitlock
You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don’t necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.
Bradley Whitford
But, my dear, I knew when I was a baby what I wanted to do, and I’ll tell you, kiddo, if you don’t do what your heart tells you, you’ll never be real.
Shirley Booth
Let’s be real: It’s just TV; it’s just entertainment.
Chi McBride
I couldn’t not be who I am. That bubble eventually bursts down the road. So you just have to be real, and when you goof up, say you goofed up.
Teresa Heinz
It’s not about making it perfect, it’s about letting it be real, sometimes raw and flawed, as long as it’s true.
Pegi Young
I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
David Attenborough
Let’s be real: more often than not, Hollywood does not have three-dimensional characters for women to play.
Phoebe Robinson
We’re feminists. We’re doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin’ it right! At our concerts we’ll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we’ll be real sexy.
Cheryl James
For those whose faith has faded, the reasons may be real to them, but these reasons do not change the reality of what Joseph Smith restored.
James E. Faust
Film taught me an enormous amount about the internal life a performance has to have, and that life has to be real. You can fake it on stage, but not for the camera.
Mariette Hartley
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
Goldwin Smith
In 1955, when I’d write a science-fiction novel, I’d set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, ‘My God, it’s getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950s!’ Everything’s just turning out to be real.
Philip K. Dick
Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.
Nobu Matsuhisa
Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
Phillip E. Johnson
I try to be real positive because I know I’m being listened to, and I have a responsibility.
Angie Martinez
I’m gonna be real everywhere I go, but I’m with my people, I’m connected to my roots – I’m in my country! I don’t need to live somewhere else.
J Balvin
If you really want to flex, you have to be real.
J Balvin
I’ve made up stuff that’s turned out to be real, that’s the spooky part.
Tom Clancy
You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
Ralph Fiennes
I’m in this effort to unify my life and to live day to day in a disciplined way, to be real at all times, not just in front of people, or not just in a synagogue.
Ezra Furman
For me as an audience member, it makes the characters more relatable and interesting if they’re evolving and changing – it makes them feel more real in a way. But not every cartoon is trying to be real.
Raphael Bob-Waksberg
I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.
Janet Montgomery
I’ve played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don’t get me wrong. But it can be characters I’m not as excited to explore.
Ty Burrell
Everything about ‘Adventure Time’ is the purest form of kid’s play. A kid does not live in the Land of Ooo. That is one of the wonderful things about the show; it doesn’t pretend to be real. That was the great thing about ‘Pee Wee’s Playhouse’; it existed in a world completely outside any reality a kid recognized.
Fred Seibert
When the urge to bake strikes, it strikes hard and fast

When the urge to bake strikes, it strikes hard and fast. You want to get in the kitchen and start breaking eggs right away, so it can be real buzzkill to find out that the recipe you’re using calls for room-temperature butter.
Claire Saffitz
I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.
Axl Rose
I had a father who was active, present. There are people out there that never knew their fathers, didn’t have their father’s support. If I were to complain, that would be real sad. How dare I?
John David Washington
I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.
Kurt Cobain
I hate it when you see in films people with their anoraks flapping open in a blizzard. They’d be dead in a couple of minutes. It’s got to be real. It’s got to work.
Michelle Paver
Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.
James Dashner
Emotions should be real; one shouldn’t come across as acting.
Mahesh Babu
Let’s be real: dads get a bad rap in the media. We’re talking Vanilla Ice’s ‘Ninja Rap’ bad. More often than not, they’re either pop lockin’ Soul Train-style after learning they aren’t the father, or they’re selfish man-children who have more toys than brain cells.
Phoebe Robinson
I used to be real cocky about what I do but then I realized it’s not me, all of this is really God’s gift and whenever He want to, He can take it away.
Mase
I have no theories about the divorce rate or things like that, but it does occur to me that dealing with kids and their problems can be real binding glue. It keeps you out of the range of too much ego.
Ken Howard
I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.
Jonas Mekas
I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
Bebe Rexha
All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.
Jane Hamilton
I actually hate reality TV! I know people love it, but when I watch, I’m analytical, and I’m like, ‘This can’t be real because of the camera position! And I see the cuts!’
Kathryn Prescott
I get on with people. I don’t hang out with people who aren’t nice. It’s like, be real or go home.
Charli XCX
Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.
Ken Hensley
I’ve talked to ghosts once. For me, it makes sense for them to be real because of physics. In physics, you can’t destroy energy; it can only be conserved.
Milly Shapiro
You’ve got to take care of yourself, man. There’s a lot of stuff going around here nowadays with cancer and hormones and things like that they’re putting in a lot of foods. You’ve got to be real careful and stay as healthy as possible.
Julio Jones
We can be shiny and perfect and admired, or we can be real and honest and vulnerable and loved. But we actually do have to choose.
Glennon Doyle Melton
2020 is going to be real. It’s going to get loud.
Jermell Charlo
Thanks to social media, we’ve also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be real.
J Balvin
I think I’ve been inspired by Chris and his ability to be raw and genuine and admit flaws and let it be whatever it is. That’s something I’m trying to do, too, is just be real… That way ends up being very healing with people.
Taya Kyle
I brush it, brush it after every practice and stuff, just because it gets tangled. It’s just all natural, let it grow, let it be, let it be real.
Eric Weddle
I didn’t know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
Rita Dove
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
My new mission is, and I’ve said this to the White House, I want the Buy America to be real. I want the Buy America to be by small businesses, African American businesses, Latino and Asian, but in particular our African American businesses who heretofore couldn’t even find the front door of government contracts.
Sheila Jackson Lee
We always thought if ‘Beauty and the Beat’ sold even 100,000 copies, we’d be real happy and a successful group, so when it reached a million… Hey, we just laughed about it.
Gina Schock
You never know about team speed until you get out there. You don’t know who is a slow learner. A kid may not be very bright or he may be real bright but he doesn’t know football. You’ve got to find out all those nuances and how they learn.
Bruce Arians