I’ve played so many jobs where I’m fearless, but it’s far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.
It wasn’t until I went to my first comic convention while I was in high school that I got to see actual comic book artists and original artwork in real life, up close. That was when I first realized that this is what I wanted to do for a living.
I’m able to leave Don Draper at work. I’m quite dissimilar from him in real life.
If you sit at your desk and reach and grab a cup of coffee, you don’t look directly at the cup, focus on it, and get your fingers lined up before grabbing the coffee. In real life, you reach for a cup that you see out of the corner of your eye, and when you feel it, you know you can grab it.
If ‘Game Of Thrones’ hadn’t been made, I don’t think ‘The Last Kingdom’ would have been, but this is more grounded in real life.
The Tracy Morgan you see is the Tracy Morgan in real life. He’s a great guy but… man, is he a nut.
I always find the more you can draw on real life characters, people, situations, it works better. Certainly for designing a character, I prefer to draw on real people rather than other guys I’ve seen in movies, rather than ‘here’s my version of Clint Eastwood’ or whoever.
Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody’s had an experience just like you, somewhere.
I wouldn’t want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn’t for the life of me do the job in real life.
The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It’s hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate.
I don’t like when I watch a fight in a movie that’s perfectly worded and very articulate. If you were able to be that composed, you wouldn’t be fighting! Fighting in real life is sloppy.
It’s a controlling thing on stage – you’re directing the action, getting people to play their role. In real life, I take being kind and nice seriously, so the last thing I’d ever want to be is that weird, controlling, manipulative character.
Almost every day, people will say to me some version of, ‘You’re so much nicer in real life.’ I guess I come across as not nice.
If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.
Culture is this thing that exists apart from our real life but is something we all have tacitly agreed to in America. And what film and television do, particularly in this country, is lay out the characters involved in this invisible agreement and dictate who and what can participate.
In real life I don’t chant. Nor do I believe in idol worship.
I just felt that I might to go to university and get some real life. It wasn’t stimulating in the same way. I loved being at Bristol, but I missed the thrill of being on set.
Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.
The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life.
The characters can’t be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.
It often seems that, for whatever strange reasons, comedians, in addition to their formal performances, have more comic experiences in real life than other people do.
Growing up in New Orleans helped me live a real life. I experienced so many things.
The genuine artist is never ‘true to life.’ He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.
In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.
Whether you’re tall and you play a basketball player, or overweight and you play somebody who is dealing with the issues behind the weight, we all have to pull from real life to make those performances authentic.
I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It’s kind of weird, isn’t it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.
In real life, if you really enjoy somebody’s company, and you have a great time with them, and then you’re supposed to – becoming two lovers who are having a great time in their own fictional world, I think it bleeds into reality and vice versa.
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
The kinds of films I like are the ones that take their time. If you reach an emotional pinnacle too early on in a film, that’s kind of it. I think, as in real life, when you’re getting to know someone, it starts off slowly.
I have worked on Wall Street and on Bay Street. I started a charity and I’ve been doing it while raising four children. And I think that’s the kind of experience people want to see from their political leaders. It’s real life experience.
I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I’ve been in my whole life.
Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
I live a very real life.
Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.
I was in awe of Robert Osborne, the man, and his incredible talent. Like everyone else, I loved watching him introduce classic films on TCM. But I was fortunate to also get to know him in real life by spending time with him and being interviewed by him over the years at events around the country.
I do have ADD and in real life, I’m all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I’d start drifting off… I can’t sit still too long.
I can’t stop moving. I’m like this weird insect. I can’t sit still in real life.
The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.
I’m a very serious man in real life.
I want to do something crazy for a part – something I’d never even consider in real life.
I look very different on camera compared with how I do in real life. On camera, I look my best when everything is enhanced, especially my eyes – I like a smoky eye. In real life, I like myself best in tinted moisturiser, lip balm and mascara.
The way I approach acting when there’s a real life character, it’s sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us.
I’ve always had that attitude about my career: it’s something that I do, but it’s not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I’ve got a lot of chickens, I’ve got a horse, I’ve got a kitty-cat, I’ve got a lot of goats, I’ve got animals all over the place.
I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I’m rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are.
Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares.
Justin Bieber, I love to death. He’s such a cool, ridiculous, much crazier kid in real life – more than he’s really allowed to be, because he’s a Unicorn and very rare.
To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives.
For one thing, I don’t pun excessively in real life.
My Auntie CeCe – I can kind of joke and say all I need to do is pray. But that’s literally what she does… She lives what she sings. I’ve learned a lot about her in that way, so in bringing her to the stage, I knew what sort of demeanor she needed to have. Her songs are very reflective of who she is in real life.
I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it’s not.
It’s tough – and I’m not the first person to say this – but cliches exist because they actually happen in real life.
One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional ‘West Wing.’ In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in.
The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.
Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes – thank goodness – it’s nicer than real life.
People love video games because they do things they obviously can’t do in real life. That’s especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
I think something that’s very relevant in real life and that they don’t portray enough on TV is that when you think ‘Christian,’ you think ‘goody two shoes’ – they have to look a certain way and do certain things – and it’s just not true.
