Top 363 Realistic Quotes

‘Indigo Prophecy’ already brought a lot of new features to the traditional adventure genre, including the Action system, MultiView, Bending Stories, etc. ‘Heavy Rain’ will include features like advanced physics and AI, realistic characters and living environments.

Being an actress wasn’t realistic. I knew that I was going to have to do it in a way that would speak to my parents. So I went to NYU Tisch School of the Arts for theater, and I studied at the conservatory.

We do need a vision that’s uplifting, even whilst being realistic. And there’s a lot in the world that already speaks to that, like tikkun olam in the Jewish faith.

We have to be realistic. If we don’t win, life will continue.

When considering a career move, consider the most important assumptions that have to prove true and how you can swiftly and inexpensively test if they are valid. Also, remain realistic about the path ahead of you.

There’s a part of me that wishes no one knew anything about me, but it’s just not realistic.

I could not have been a rapper in 1985 and thought, ‘I want to be a millionaire.’ That was not a realistic dream.

Coming back from doing ‘The Hobbit,’ you think ‘Sherlock’ is realistic, but of course, it’s not that realistic.

‘Monster Hunter’ was its own series, its own franchise, and it just so happened that we wanted to make a realistic fantasy-based action game, and because we had the staff available to make something like that, we’re able to make this game. The ideas for ‘Dragon’s Dogma’ came from a completely different place.

I like method actors who don’t focus on the glamorous side, but on realistic acting.

I had to be very unrealistic about my situation. If I was so realistic I would never have made it this far. So, you just sometimes have to be hopeful for no reason.

The best way to make employees happy is to set realistic goals and achieve them. The big job is to make sure those small steps are pointing us in the right direction and demonstrate at the end of the year that they all add up to something pretty great.

I’m sorry, I’m absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.

I’m very practical and realistic.

Choose paintings, sculptures, realistic or abstract or animal images woven into fabrics, rather than a faux zebra rug or a sullied Lion’s head on the wall.

You have to be realistic. Not everyone is going to like you, so you have to focus on the ones who do.

I think retirement is a little bit like death. I want to always be incredibly engaged and challenged, but in climbing, you do have to be realistic that your body won’t be able to keep up forever.

I rarely got retouched when I started modeling, and it was crucial to me to show an accurate, realistic picture of me because that’s beautiful, too.

If we made the ‘Batman’ games more realistic, you’d have to be Bruce Wayne for half the game, counting his money and dating supermodels.

But I’m not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody’s ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

There is such a cliche to certain roles that all I can do is to try to make them realistic and work for the times, and so the audience actually won’t see me as a caricature of something, but rather as an actual person.

There’s something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you’re not quite sure what you’re looking at. It becomes weird like it did in ‘The Polar Express,’ where the eyes seem so realistic, and yet you know it’s animated.

I thought, well, what about a show that stars undersea creatures, and some of the ones you rarely see animated. So, from there, I just started drawing different animals in a kind of a setting that was this nautical world. It’s not realistic but sort of a fantastic environment.

At the end of the day, at 49 years old, it’s realistic to believe that a Terminator has a heart.

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

I’m realistic. I look for my own target that I set in my head beginning of the season. Once I get there, that’s when I start enjoying scoring.

I think, going forward, we need to be much more modest on expectations with regard to China growth: That’s just being realistic.

Me playing for the Knicks is not realistic.

There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in ‘Red Cliff.’ I want all the action to look realistic.

People have been saying that Amar Singh is more of an intellectual than a grassroot politician but we will prove them wrong. We will pick up problems, explore them in a realistic way and present them in parliament.

Every film tries to advance the state of the art, at least a little bit. Brand new techniques? A lot of them are just evolutionary: we’re just building on something that’s like something we’ve done before and just trying to do it a little bit better or make it a little bit more realistic.

Reacting to every slight or letdown is neither realistic nor fair; it sends the message that we expect the other person to be flawless in relationship. But no one is perfect, and no one relationship can ever meet all our needs.

I’ve certainly always had a very high regard for Botswana and so I paint a very good picture of the country and I’ve never pretended to be painting an entirely realistic picture.

I haven’t been very good about dealing with disappointment. I suffer it, and then when that suffering becomes a kind of predation, then it’s gone. Because the disappointment is not always realistic.

As a driver, you always want to win every race, but as a car owner you know that isn’t very realistic.

‘Confederate,’ in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show. It’s a science-fiction show. One of the strengths of science fiction is that it can show us how this history is still with us in a way no strictly realistic drama ever could, whether it were a historical drama or a contemporary drama.

I’d love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it’s not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.

You can say to actors that you’ve got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.

Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.

In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don’t have a ton of options as an actor who’s been on a science fiction show for 8 years.

Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

I’m very realistic in my outlook on everything in life. When I look ahead in my mind to see what’s going to happen next, I see the good and I see the bad.

Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that’s a ruse.

Basically, it was important to break the belief that commercial filmmakers can’t make realistic movies. I broke it.

Let’s be honest – tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans.

One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.

Sadly, I think that ‘Children of Men’ has only become an increasingly relevant and realistic portrait of where we are in the world.

There were some who wanted all the benefits of E.U. membership without any of the costs. I’m not sure that’s very realistic.

‘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.

It’s about making sure we’re there at the end of races and we get the best possible finish we can. What comes with that is being able to have realistic expectations and not trying to do something more than what the car is capable of, so it’s a team effort for sure.

It’s hard for me to consider something in cinema or theater as something realistic.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that’s all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, ‘If you are looking for justice, don’t go to a courtroom.’ That’s just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

Don’t be afraid to have a reality check. Taking risks is OK, but you must be realistic.