Top 590 Real Life Quotes

It’s a mystery, that thing about chemistry, because often people who hate each other in real life and hate each other on the set have great chemistry on the screen. And people who love each other in real life and love each other on the set have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever.
Helen Mirren
I honestly in a lot of ways don’t want to sing about my real life, because that’s private.
Carrie Underwood
In real life, I swear by Edge Control by Olive Oil. My hairstylist hates it, but it’s everything to me. And I mean everything! It’s like a perm in a little jar of gel.
Tasha Smith
There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
Abbas Kiarostami
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
Laurie Graham
I am still very independent in my real life, and that's

I am still very independent in my real life, and that’s why I’m always trying to get out of relationships prematurely.
Daya
I just don’t do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet and real life.
Yuan Yuan Tan
I wanted to do journalism, as I was an idealist. Then, in my second year of journalism, I realized that in real life, things don’t work the way you expect them to. I realized that I could express my ideas better through films.
Nithya Menen
I do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life.
Gina Rodriguez
In real life, I don’t think anybody is all one shade. People who are perceived to be really good have bad thoughts and inclinations that they sometimes act on, I’m sure, and people have different sides to themselves.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I’ll have used up all my characters, and then I’ll be free to get on with my real life.
Anne Tyler
I think I’m a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I’m kind of a tomboy. I like to read a lot I like watching T.V. I don’t think I’m as interesting as my characters, but I like doing what I do.
Sprague Grayden
There’s a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don’t have to push back as much as they would in real life.
Bridgit Mendler
I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that’s what country music is to me… real life stories and real life emotions.
Dustin Lynch
Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, ‘Yes! I’m not over the top after all!’
John Lithgow
What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Mark Twain
An actor’s job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.
Wentworth Miller
I think I am generally prone to exaggerating characters, taking them to a ridiculous extent. But you do also meet those people in real life who are just really awful.
Julia Davis
When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children’s literature. My stories came from real life, from my concerns about what was happening in the world.
Michael Foreman
If you’re a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you’ll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don’t leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn’t make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It’s a nightmare to get punched in the eye.
Louis C. K.
Most of my avant garde fashion is saved for my videos and for the stage. In real life, I tend towards a classy, black Goth look. I love black, a few sparkles, false eyelashes and boots. But when I perform, I love fantasy and props.
Jane Badler
In real life, comedians aren’t funny.
Michael Showalter
I don’t want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That’s not real life to me. You can’t appreciate it.
Diane Kruger
I think one’s character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.
Peter M. Brant
My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, ‘If you’ve got it, flaunt it.’
Cheryl Hines
My real life is funnier than anything on TV.
Roseanne Barr
And in real life we have to deal with everyone thinking we are the way we act in the ring. It can cause problems in your personal life.
Sable
When I was in college, I did sort of want to be a journalist. Being an actor, you kind of have the same interest. You go into a story, and you tell it from your point of view for people who aren’t there. That’s what an actor does with a character. But the real life is more more interesting.
Sigourney Weaver
I laugh much more during takes than I do during real life. Maybe because you’re not supposed to. I’ve ruined many takes because I will lose it.
Paul Rudd
In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B.
Bobby Moynihan
I connect with very few close friends in real life.
Pratyusha Banerjee
In real life, I know to filter all my jerk opinions and my jerk thoughts and my jerk desires.
Ron Livingston
All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. It’s a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones.
Atticus Shaffer
In real life, being a new mom, I would like to be able to sleep. I’d like to snap my fingers and be asleep because I’m a little sleep-deprived, at the moment.
Jenna Dewan
In real life, I’m the kind of person that if I use Siri, I thank her afterwards.
Carrie-Anne Moss
The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part… he was the part! The real life Godfather.
Victoria Gotti
Imgur isn't about following a celebrity, and it's not a

Imgur isn’t about following a celebrity, and it’s not about following a person in real life. You don’t have to build up a massive following and use that to get your distribution.
Alan Schaaf
A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.
Joanne Harris
In Hollywood, you’re always playing roles… It’s like going through the motions. But in real life, it’s like, you gotta take care of business. It’s not just the movies.
Mickey Rourke
Sam and Dean Winchester sitting on the top of the Impala sharing their feelings over a beer is a reward worth driving any ‘Supernatural’ demon away – but in real life, they’d have crippling co-dependency issues.
Margaret Stohl
Actresses are so spoilt – we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don’t know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that’s about it!
Clemence Poesy
You can’t help it as a human being when you’re put under so much scrutiny by multiple people, not even just one person in real life, telling you something. It harms you.
Lauren Jauregui
The watch everybody rap about, I have in real life.
Offset
Humor and comedy have always been the best way to deal with real life issues and just reality.
Jermaine Fowler
I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don’t even need a woman there.
Garry Shandling
Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn’t do in real life – well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don’t they?
John Malkovich
Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
The real enemies of our life are the ‘oughts’ and the ‘ifs.’ They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
Henri Nouwen
It’s good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.
Nelson DeMille
But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.
James Stockdale
‘Carrie Diaries’ was one of the scripts that was sent my way, and it was instantly something I wanted to work on. It was very charming, and there’s a lot of heart to it. It was touching and nostalgic and relatable, and it validates so many coming-of-age issues in an open and honest way. I think it speaks to real life.
Ellen Wong
I have played so many romantic roles that I don’t know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get confused about the real me.
Dhanush
In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don’t think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
Wallace Shawn
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel Smiles
So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers’ advice and from the counselors around.
Alan Thicke
In real life, I don’t cry too easily. I go numb.
Kay Kay Menon
I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‘real life’ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.
David Bowie
The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn’t want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they’re gay.
Chris Colfer
In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don’t always apply.
Jack McBrayer
Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it’s a bubble – it isn’t real life.
Jamie Campbell Bower
I remember watching television when I was younger, and I felt like there were things TV tackled first, and then it would happen to me in real life, and I felt prepared.
Bresha Webb