Top 150 Real People Quotes

When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn’t really live in the real world very much. As a consequence, I couldn’t cope with the real world and real people very well. That in itself became life threatening, so I had to stop drawing so much and learn how to cope with people.

The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class.

I’m following a real event and real people.

It is easy to make stuff up – and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there’s an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they’re real people, ya know?

I always talk about my characters like they’re real people.

The best way to honor real people when you play them is to try to tell the story of their dynamics and the struggles that they’re dealing with rather than lose sight of the connections and personal relationships, and do a really good job at an accent.

I’ve done a lot of movies based on real people, real situations, non-fiction books, magazine articles, life rights.

Whenever you’re telling a story about true-life events and about real people, there’s a tremendous responsibility-slash-burden to get it right.

I understand we love to talk about black girl magic, but sometimes that is a term that allows people to put us in this character like we’re not real people that feel real things.

Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have ‘evolved’ from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver’s dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff ‘Cliff’ Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane’s caricatures in ‘American Dad!’ and ‘Family Guy.’

Journalists know other journalists – that’s the only reason my engagement made it into the papers. I don’t think real people are interested – just the media, just Twitter!

Since Day 1 of his candidacy, Donald Trump has divided our country and threatened our democracy, attacked the middle class and alienated our allies. Under his administration, real people are being hurt.

Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls’ opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country’s development shrink. These are real people.

When you’re famous, you don’t get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don’t see the real people.

If beef is your idea of ‘real food for real people’, you’d better live real close to a real good hospital.

‘Star Wars’ is very black and white, and honestly, I like it that way. But fantastical settings like that work best when the characters within them feel real. Real people have conflicts and make mistakes and get it wrong sometimes.

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

You see who the real people are when they’re challenged.

I don’t like writing with real people in mind.

I’m gonna open a small restaurant on the beach in Mexico. We’re only gonna have a few tables, and we’re only gonna cook what’s fresh that day. We’re gonna get back to the basics… Real food for real people.

The ‘Islam vs. the West’ dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

Only a crazy person wouldn’t fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.

There are real people on the pitch. We’re not commodities. Well, maybe we are to some degree, but it’s the team which creates business. Some people don’t appreciate that.

That, to me, is the core of fantasy – real people in a crazy environment, dealing with crazy problems. That’s what I think the books of ‘The Witcher’ did really well, and it’s what attracted me to them, in the first place.

I think Hollywood has this reputation of being fake, but there is real people, and you can choose and try and see.

I’d always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I’ve always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.

I want to make sure that people understand that, behind this national conversation around transgender rights, there are real people who hurt when they’re mocked, who hurt when they’re discriminated against, and who just want to be treated with dignity and respect.

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

Anybody who works with me knows this: I always repeat wardrobe in my characters. We’re trying to play real people.

What does it say about a president’s policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don’t want to do a caricature of them and you don’t want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That’s the hardest thing to do, real people.

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don’t permit you to do that.

I’m hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It’s almost maddening.

I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.

The lesson for businesses is you are dealing with real people. Those are your customers, those are your employees, those are your bosses, and the better you understand how real people tick, the more successfully you will be able to accomplish your goals.

I find that using real people as models keeps me from getting too formulaic in the designs of characters.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

Policy is about real people and real stories, and sometimes we forget that.

I’ve had my best experience as a filmmaker with true stories about real people and real cultures.

Because my friends and family are real people, and they wear all sizes, I couldn’t imagine designing something that my loved ones could not wear.

Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I’m asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes.

I love to feature children and young adults as real people – flawed, naive, virtuous, venal – but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn’t exist without them.

Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people – real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.

When ‘Real People’ aired in 1979, we did OK in Los Angeles and New York. What kept that show from being canceled were the ratings from the middle of the country, and that’s what kept us in the top five. I learned then from co-hosting that it was important to focus on the country between Los Angeles and New York.

It’s a huge responsibility writing about people who are alive. It’s the thing about writing that keeps me awake at night: dramatising real-life events with real people.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods – the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.

People bought bitcoin because they thought it would be worth more tomorrow. And a lot of people got lucky. But we’re not seeing real people use bitcoin. And we don’t know what problem it solves. Now, blockchain, I think, is a genius advancement in technology.

They make three types of movies, and if you don’t make one of those three, you have to find independent financing: It’s either big-action superhero tent-pole thing, or it’s an animated film, or it’s an R-rated, raunchy sex comedy. They don’t make movies about real people.

I can tell very early on, reading a script, within six or seven pages, whether I’m looking at real people, and whether I can see and hear real people.