Top 353 Real World Quotes

Sometimes I’m kind of spacey. I’m like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what’s going on in the real world.
Richard Gere
Heart is tied with a lot of controversies, a lot of heartbreaks in show business. With ‘Love Marie’ who I really am in the real world. I feel more free, I feel more clean. I feel like people don’t judge me, and that is why I shy away from being Heart when it comes to my painting.
Heart Evangelista
‘Bigg Boss’ changed my view of the world. Before I joined the show as its host, I was living in a bubble. I believed the real world is a happy place. ‘Bigg Boss’ made me realise that the world is made of all kinds of people, including some judgmental ones. It has introduced me to the real world.
Nani
‘The Matrix’ is a movie that is all about glamour. I could do a whole talk on ‘The Matrix’ and glamour. It was criticized for glamorizing violence, because, look – sunglasses and those long coats, and, of course, they could walk up walls and do all these kinds of things that are impossible in the real world.
Virginia Postrel
The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.
Jules Shear
When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.
Abby Lee Miller
Coming from a YouTube perspective, a lot of times you kind of limit yourself and think, ‘Oh, artists from the real world wouldn’t want to work with someone who’s made their career on YouTube.’ But more and more, I’m realizing that artists from both sides are learning that we can benefit from each other.
Lindsey Stirling
When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.
Robert Crumb
When you’re on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It’s pretty intense.
Robert Smith
My husband is someone who's in the real world. It's a b

My husband is someone who’s in the real world. It’s a big help that I don’t have both feet in Hollywood.
Jeri Ryan
In the real world, there’s a lot of things that we can’t control, but when I step through those ropes I get to control everything.
Caleb Plant
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
John Spencer
I have nothing but the best memories of growing up in New Jersey. Of course, I grew up in a nice town, a suburb. But Tenafly was right next to Englewood, which had a tremendous amount of racial tension in the ’60s. So I was aware of the real world.
Lesley Gore
Most of my roles have had streaks of a real girl from the real world.
Amrita Rao
Since I started working at 15 and never went to college, I didn’t know what it was like to be in the real world. I was in my bubble – until I got married, my life was either in a car, on the set, or on location.
Ayesha Takia
I was in theater school playing Lady Macbeth and doing these great dramatic parts, and then I got out into the real world and was auditioning for commercials, and just not getting to do anything that felt remotely meaningful.
Marielle Heller
Movies like ‘Gul Makai’ carry an important message, such movies should be made as it shows us the struggle people go through in the real world.
Divya Dutta
It’s one thing to skip class to play poker, but if I’m learning how to think in the real world playing poker, then maybe that’s more valuable than a college education could’ve been.
James Holzhauer
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
Galen Rowell
In the real world, there’s probably nothing more horrifying than racism. Living racism is a horrifying experience. And then, having to normalize it and internalize it.
Daniel Kaluuya
‘Faults,’ in a lot of ways, is still is a heightened film, but the end of the day, it’s the real world. It’s in ’86, is the arbitrary date that I’ve set. And so I went about it in a more realistic way.
Riley Stearns
For economist the real world is often a special case.
Edgar Fiedler
Science fiction in particular is often assumed to be about the future, or about some abstract technological or philosophical idea, or just about ‘adventure,’ but writers can’t build worlds out of nothing. We use bits and pieces of the real world to assemble our fictional ones.
Ann Leckie
If we are ever to cross the 100-nano barrier in electronics, we need to develop nano structures that let electrons move through, as they do through wires and semiconductors. And these structures must survive in the real world of air, water, boiling temperatures.
Richard Smalley
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
Harry Reasoner
If you think about it, it requires a lot of effort and time and energy to make money in the real world, and if they made games equally as difficult to make money in, people wouldn’t play them. So they are generally designed to be hyper-inflationary because that’s more fun.
Brock Pierce
I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.
Beeban Kidron
Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.
Ray Kurzweil
To the extent that trolley problem scenarios exist in the real world, AVs will make them rarer, not more frequent.
Karl Iagnemma
Comic-book movies are mythology, in a way, and there are a lot more parallels in them with what’s going on in the real world than people want to discuss.
Sebastian Stan
Working on location is ideal because you enter the character and the story. Shooting at a studio near home, there’s a certain split. But on location, you forget the real world, and when you come back to reality, just going to the market can be traumatic.
Sondra Locke
We all assume that if you’re weak and poor, you’re never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.
Malcolm Gladwell
Ultimately, criticism that ‘The Real World’ has devolved into a lesser enterprise comes from the viewers who came of age alongside it, not the teens of the moment that MTV has always existed for.
Andrea Seigel
Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn’t work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.
Kangana Ran
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I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to be all wrong. Humans do not understand it very well, but I just don’t believe there is a big cosmic conspiracy that created this incredible thing that has nothing to do with the real world.
Edward Witten
In the real world, it doesn’t always go your way like it can on a television show.
James Roday
It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.
Norm Coleman
That era of designers being away with the fairies is gone… You’ve got to live in the real world.
Giles Deacon
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy – and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Robert A. Heinlein
Boxing wasn’t taking me to the darkest places in my life. No. The fights were the easy part because it took my mind away from self-destruction. When I came out of the ring I had to deal with the real world. Fighting was my escape.
Nigel Benn
We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself ha

We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.
Salman Rushdie
When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
Henry Rollins
I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.
Harold E. Varmus
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.
Dave Van Ronk
The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.
Mandy Patinkin
The power that you have as a storyteller is to be able to tell stories that are at once entertaining but also never lose sight of what’s going on in the real world.
Cheo Hodari Coker
I started off on the ‘The Real World,’ and no one thought I would amount to anything.
The Miz
Being in the entertainment industry, I do have some privileges, but when I’m off sets and in the real world, I’m a trans individual whose rights and safety have been taken away.
Carmen Carrera
When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it’s a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else’s point of view, whether he’s a good guy or a bad guy.
Faran Tahir
One of the things about being a law student is that the academic discipline of law is very often removed from the practical reality of law. How to complain, who to complain to, and whether or not you even need to invoke the law is very different in the real world from how it’s examined in the lecture theatre.
Robert Rinder
I tend to be so lost in the work that I don’t notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, ‘Beautiful day, wasn’t it?’ and I’ll say, ‘Was it?’ as I won’t have noticed the real world at all.
Emma Donoghue
They don’t actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.
Luc Montagnier
Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called ‘real world’ of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.
Tom Hodgkinson