The biggest similarity between me and my character is that we’ve both played clubs for 20 years. In real life, the clubs aren’t quite as controlled – and my hair isn’t quite as in place as it is on ‘Ally McBeal.’
My wife was a Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever, so I play James Bond in real life every day.
I need to fill myself up with real life. That’s kind of the well I draw from.
I’m a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. It’s fun, you know? It’s things I wouldn’t normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I’m finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person.
In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments.
I smile a lot in my real life.
Gee, I certainly hope I’m not a scary person in real life. It’s not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when they meet me. If they’re scared, they keep their shuddering to themselves.
I can’t remember any dreams in my life. There’s so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.
I’m useless with a sword in real life.
In a perfect dream, things would be set exactly the way you would want them. But I think it’s more interesting that in real life, things aren’t exactly the way you planned.
I’ll be more interested in acting only when it has to do something with who I am in real life. More like playing a singer or musician on screen like in ‘Aashiqui’ or ‘Rockstar.’
Nobody smolders in real life.
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it’s as if they don’t exist.
Paper knowledge, paper evaluations, paper degrees all too papery and all too theoretical; it has very little that prepares us for real life in the real world.
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul.
It would be easier for people to grasp that gender, sex, and sexual orientation are different things if we had as much imagination in real life as we do when we are making our movies.
We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We’re haunted by our particular demons.
I’m like Twitter-famous, but in real life. Instead of your mentions, it’s real people coming up to you. People shake your hand instead of liking your tweets.
Real life doesn’t exist on a network television comedy. They just don’t let you travel down any road that is presumably ‘dark.’
When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on a minute, everyone you see in the video are real life.
I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.
The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone.
Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That’s not what real life is about.
The best stories come from real life.
I just don’t think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.
In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn’t in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.
Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter.
Social media – It’s not real life. I only caught the tail end of it in high school. It can be good, and it can be fun, but you can’t let it get toxic.
Over the years of running Into The Gloss, I began to see a gap in the way beauty companies were creating products and marketing them to women. There wasn’t one brand that really spoke to girls like me, who created products for real life. So we set out to create that brand with Glossier.
One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you’d never do in real life.
In real life, I’m gorgeous, beautiful.
Real life is hard. I’m sorry, but shopping at Tesco is not as much fun as writing jokes for TV shows, and I struggle with it.
One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don’t get to do in real life.
Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can’t I for once play that on stage?
Fame is something that is tough when it comes. It’s a weird thing to take on in real life. I was a little bit afraid and, as a result, kind of turned my back on it. You should embrace it because it’s going to be a part of who you are, and it’s going to be a part of what this business is about.
I’ve often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.
I love traveling. I love meeting people. I love performing, but it’s hard to be gone and to not have a real life and to just get the emotional love that you need from the people you’re traveling with.
Hashtag activism is a catalyst, but things have to actually happen in real life.
Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
I would love to do comedy. I think I’m funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life. I have yet to prove myself in the movies, but I’d love to get the opportunity to do that.
I’ve got a clear line between work and real life.
In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don’t listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn’t look good on the page.
In real life, we think people don’t change, but they do. People do change in profound ways with all the different major things that happen in their lives.
You have to be careful that you’re not too involved in so much social media that you miss out on real life.
This business – the auditions, the anxiety – it’s all so, aaah, crazy! But I can always call my mom in Cuba to be reminded of what real life is.
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.
In real life, I’m so goofy and super weird. I’m never mean, but people don’t see the weird side of me. Like, I’ll be dancing around. My best friends will always say that they wish others saw that side of me, when I’m doing a weird dance or weird faces or voices.
Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.
I love all of Albert Brooks’ work from ‘Defending Your Life’ back to his first film, ‘Real Life’, but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work.
I’m a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I’m a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.
I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married in real life. So both are shocks to me.
I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there’s the screen persona. Here is Robert, known for his portrayal of many characters, including gangsters. But in real life, he is elegant and erudite. He sits in the garden reading the sonnets of William Shakespeare.
Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.
I’m very shy in real life; I can’t really hit on girls.
Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
I make sure I have a smile every day for everybody because our stories within it have a darkness and we don’t need to bleed it into real life because people have got their own issues going on. So I’d always come in and be the biggest idiot on set.
