Coincidence is a recognized element in ‘real life.’ All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.
Actors don’t have to be linked in real life for the chemistry to be translated on screen.
It’s as if a psychological norm is being established whereby comments left online are part of a video game and not real life. It’s as if we’ve all forgotten that there’s a real person on the other end, reading and being hurt by our vitriol.
We are working women. Also, we have the problem of children, of men, to take care of our houses, so many things. I try to explain that in my clothes. They are clothes for everyday life. That is the real life of woman.
I’m not particularly affable in real life, I have to tell you. I’ve got that side to me, of course, but that’s not all I am.
In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.
James McBride’s ‘The Good Lord Bird’ is set in the mid-19th century and is based on the real life of John Brown, the one who lies a-mouldering in his grave.
I’m drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I’m moved by that in real life.
I kind of connected the dots, like, ‘Oh, we’re just saying stuff. We’re just saying things that make sense, so let’s just say them like you say them in real life.’ It was my first and one of my only acting lessons ’cause I never really studied acting.
I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.
How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don’t already know?
My characters all have issues, but I don’t see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.
I love being in real life, and in particular, I like being with young people.
You have to remember we’re just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.
I’m a very happy-go-lucky lover of all mankind as a person in real life. So when I play a darker character, I have to tap into something that isn’t my natural way, and what I found was that I think human beings have the potential for all of these emotions.
When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It’s in real life that people are over the top.
All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.
I’m not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I’ll be funny in real life. It’s the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.
I don’t think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don’t know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn’t. Some of them went and dropped out.
In real life, and for women everywhere, no matter what their job is, your 30s and your 40s and beyond should be celebrated.
In real life, I wish I could do a Scourgify. That would just be incredible helpful, when I know the rest of the family is gong to be back in 30 seconds and I haven’t tidied up. That would be really helpful.
Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren’t always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres.
In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.
Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.
I don’t see such a huge difference between online and ‘in real life’. I think it has now become one and the same.
In real life, I am alarmingly boring.
I’m not a confrontational person in real life, so I really don’t wanna get into arguments or fistfights with people I’m making fun of.
I suppose that’s why we watch dramas: to see the stuff that in real life you’d end up in prison for.
In TV, you look to make characters consistent, but in real life, we’re not consistent. Sometimes we’re brave, and sometimes we’re not. Sometimes we’re very aggressive, and sometimes we back right down.
I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It’s always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed, ‘Here’s a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.’
I’m really fond of ‘Real Life’ because I think it anticipated a whole movement. And people forget, they talk about ‘Spinal Tap,’ but that wasn’t… this was a mockumentary a long time before that. It was one of the early, early sort of mockumentaries.
I’m very bad at violence in real life. I can’t stand it. And I’m so fed up with crime novels that have too much violence. I can’t really do it. It’s unnecessary.
People find the humor in life all the time. And you have to in order to make it through real life. Like, some things are tragic, but you have to laugh.
In real life, if I were firing you, I’d tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that’s different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It’s not a very pleasant thing. I don’t like firing people.
Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don’t realize it. It’s very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.
Even in real life, I’d rather hang out with guys.
If Queen Amezan and Queen Penthesilea could somehow meet in real life, they would recognize each other as sister Amazons. Two tales, two storytellers, two sites far apart in time and place, and yet one common tradition of women who made love and war.
Since childhood, I wanted to become a superhero. When I do anything in real life, I believe that I am a superhero, like in the way I fight, dance, or jump.
The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you’re hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.
I’m quite chameleon in my work – not normally looking much like I do in real life.
The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.
Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.
I don’t tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don’t, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life.
And I’m not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.
One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.
In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can’t control a nine-year-old girl.
I just wanted to write about stuff that was happening in real life, and that’s not just love songs about your girlfriend.
Every day, there is a person following me, taking pictures. It’s bizarre because I’m just going to the gym or getting a smoothie. I don’t have the time or energy to be constantly put together all the time, but that’s real life.
What you bring to the stage is what you are in real life… people sense that.
Everybody don’t have a Bentley in real life.
I’m just trying to soundtrack your real life. I’m just trying to give you a place to feel safe in all the parts of your experience.
Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high.
Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.
I’m the least sexy person in real life.
Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it’s hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it’s hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they’re thinking.
What makes ‘The Wire’ a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In ‘The Wire,’ bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.
With the breast-feeding, I really love the bonding. Real life is more important to me.
