I’m out there to be real, and I think people respond to that. If you have some image that you’re protecting, eventually people get sick of it, and I can’t imagine living that way for an entire lifetime. I’d rather just be who I am, and that’s good enough.
There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let’s just be real. But it’s not just black people. It’s Asians, it’s Hispanic people if you’re not Salma Hayek. It’s hard. It’s hard to get films funded.
I never wanted to be that guy that acted like I wasn’t in the locker room and then all of a sudden I was an analyst. I played the game. I’ve been through the bumps and bruises, the politics. When I give an opinion, I want it to be real.
From January to December of 2019, I crumbled, to be real, and I think by the end of 2019 I had beaten myself up in every possible way to the point where I wasn’t even a person. I was fully at rock bottom.
I like to be real. I don’t like things to be staged or fussy.
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn’t seem to be real at all.
Every kid will tell you that they want you to be real, but that’s until you keep it real with them. Then they don’t want it real.
Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality.
You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you’ve made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who’s been sent away to boarding school can understand that.
In other words, I wouldn’t like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it’s crazy to think of any form where it’s just one way.
For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.
With my name, there’s been a lot of negativity around it. I’ll be real. I understand it.
You’ve to be real, and think about yourself rather than others.
The best advice for anyone trying to grow on social media is to be real and to be consistent. People will connect more with you if you stay true to yourself and who you are.
Music’s supposed to be real. When it really touches you, it’s supposed to be real.
I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real – ‘Jurassic Park’ being my favorite example – is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
There must be real consequences for those who commit crimes in our neighborhoods.
Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it’s footwork. I constantly work on it, and it’s a never-ending process.
When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can’t happen. They have to know it’s a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it’s real. Every detail has to be real or they won’t buy it.
My first choice will always be Real Madrid, but working at a global level for La Liga can’t possibly offend anyone.
To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling to someone else. You have to be real. Or you have to be a really good storyteller.
Going from ‘Shark Night’ to ‘Piranha,’ a guy holding a fish on a stick in front of you that they’re going to replace in post-production, it’s a lot different than seeing this animatronic shark that, if you get caught up in the moment, looks, acts and you sometimes think could be real.
Every day after I wake up, I think, ‘Wait… this can’t be real; I’m still going to wake up.’
I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters – when I say strong, I don’t mean that they are changing the world, but just be real women.
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.
The only thing I want to leave behind in 2019 is anything that’s inauthentic, to be real.
‘Vice Squad’ needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.
I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.
I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don’t know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don’t know as long as you say you don’t know it.
My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it’s okay to be sincere; it’s okay to be yourself; it’s okay to be real.
When you’re on film or TV, essentially you’re in front of the camera. Unless it’s a Tim Burton thing, the desire is to be real and grounded.
Everything I do I just want to be real and honest.
I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it’s not.
Streetfighting is just get out there and bang. It’s whatever in a street fight. This is different. You have to be real smart in your decisions at this professional level of the game. In a street fight, it doesn’t even matter.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
I think it’s huge to set a good example. Whether you like it or not, as a professional athlete you are always going to be projected out into that spotlight of judgement. People are always going to judge every single thing we do and I think it’s cool to just be real with yourself.
To me, being popular means I’ve got more friends. You’ve got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I’ve got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you’ve got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they’re your friend.
I have to be real with my kids. Life is precious. They know that. Yet, I have to remind them that they’re blessed beyond what most people on the face of the Earth could imagine.
There’s something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any prior point in time has this been possible.
When you have a nightmare, you think, ‘What caused this?’ And then you can sometimes get the same scenario two or three nights, back to back. Or something really bad happens, and you feel absolutely sad and do not want it to be real. You don’t want to fall asleep and get sucked back into that same dream.
It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don’t acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
My goal is just to be real and bring people good music and let them enjoy the music that I bring.
It is the power of God that keeps us rolling on. It’s real good. When you know it to be real and true, that’s when you have to share it with whoever will listen.
From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they’re doing.
Brexit is a disaster, Italy won’t be real about its debt, and the European Union is in trouble.
Let’s be real: it’s not always the No. 1 contenders who get the title shots. It’s who they invest money in and who’s kind of a known name. In the lighter weights, just being that I fought seven title fights in a row, I think I’m that guy.
Twenty-first-century food is going to be real food. Real food is food that is truly nourishing for the consumer, the community, and the planet.
People like the shows I do. I want to be real, to have fun, even when I dance on stage… it’s a buzz.
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
There’s millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you’ve got to hide that you’re gay? Like, you know what I’m saying? Like, be real.
Hip-hop is so saturated with the same old same old that people always expect the guy to actually be the guy. They want you to be real and straight from the streets and all that.
I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
Whatever your walk of life is, I think you have to be real about it.
Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.
When I get asked for advice for a young person starting in the music business, I tell them, ‘Play every chance you get, and be real lucky.’
Nobody knows why we’re alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.
If you’re not trying to be real, you don’t have to get it right. That’s art.
