Depression is a very serious thing. People don’t realise how deadly it can be.
If you look closely at ‘Breaking Bad’ and any given episode of ‘The X Files,’ you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
Sometimes I wonder if people realise how beautiful and honourable I find it to play for my country.
Niko Kovac had to understand the system inside Bayern, to realise that this is a very different club to Eintracht Frankfurt, where he was before.
For many years, I picked the wrong men, or they picked me. I think if you don’t feel attractive or worth something as a woman, you attract men who don’t really look after you. That’s what happened to me, but I realise that those relationships were like a journey, helping me to learn something about myself.
It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don’t know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.
I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I’ve learned I can’t do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That’s why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.
I did realise that when you talk with a straight face, you come across as someone bolder than somebody who bats her eyelids a lot.
More and more, I realise I have a distinct voice, which I didn’t realise! You know, it’s just my voice. I had no idea. A lot of times, people will say now, ‘I recognised you from your voice,’ which is interesting to me.
Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it’s actually a job.
I think people are always really surprised when they realise I’m not a very serious person and that I’m not tremendously serious about acting. I don’t like to rehearse; I hate improv. Directors that don’t like to talk, they’re my favourite ones.
A couple of people I knew went to university apart from me, but all the way through I was the smartest kid in the school. That’s luck, but I was proud of it. And I was also proud of doing well without trying. As you get older, and it took me a long time to realise it, that’s a disgusting attitude, revolting.
What many people don’t realise is the first F1 test I was offered by Frank Williams and the team was a one-off. It was never planned that I would become part of the team or it would lead to more.
Punk may have helped me find my voice and made me realise that I had the right to have one, but it was riot grrrl that helped me sustain that voice and shout a little louder.
I did not realise that I was so loved. It can’t just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can’t remember what.
There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.
This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can’t be.
I always wanted to become a football player, and I thank my parents, as they helped me so much to realise this dream. They always supported me on my path.
I think you realise how terrifying and scary the world is when you’re bringing kids into it.
Most people don’t realise there’s certain things that players go through off the field. Most times, guys are good at hiding things.
When I was a young player, I never dreamed of scoring five goals in a game – and in nine minutes is something else. And when it happened, it was incredible that there could ever be anything like that in the history of the game. It took me a couple of days to realise what I’d done.
Dancers should realise that they are really lucky. Dancing is not a job. It’s people who are chosen. And you must realise that you are chosen. Sometimes I see a performance that makes me really angry – I think, ‘Those people are lucky, and they don’t realise it.’
Painting was always something I thought I’d do once I retired. But then, about five or six years ago, a good mate passed away suddenly at the age of 50 and it made me realise that if I put off doing stuff until I retire, I might not ever get there.
The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.
It’s the little things you remember. My mam, Sue, would take me to training in a taxi when I was a kid if Dad, who is a builder, had to work on a Saturday morning. You look back at the stuff like that and realise the sacrifices were all worth it.
Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it… my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.
I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
It sucks being judged by the world instead of your close friends or family. I try to just realise that the only people who matter are my family and friends.
As you get older, you start to realise negativity is really bad.
People will get to see I’m real and a straight guy. And they’ll realise I can fight as well.
As captain you’re involved immensely. You get worked up, you get carried away. It slowly dies down once you’re a player. You realise you’ve to take the back seat.
It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn’t really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.
In Bollywood, the film’s stakes are as high as the actor. In Hollywood, they are way above, and the day we realise this in our industry, we will start appreciating actors.
I start writing with an open mind without thinking about genre and realise, only after writing, that it falls under many genres.
I’ve come to realise I work so much better when I’m going by instinct.
The world doesn’t realise I have a regular job!
The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is.
In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.
I was 65 in May, and when I have just shaved, I see my father. I realise that I now have the same facial idiosyncrasies he had: little twitches here and there, mouth and nose movements, even the way he would tilt his head.
At City, I didn’t realise how much we had to do until we got there. Here, I didn’t need to change the staff because there is quality already. So they certainly don’t need me getting in the way in training by trying to show I can still play. No way.
I thought, ‘I don’t really drink that much.’ But when you stop completely it is a shocker. You realise that a glass here, going to a function there, they all tot up.
I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don’t want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated.
What a lot of people don’t realise is that damage to hair starts from washing your hair in a rush and not taking all the product out such as leave-in conditioners. So I always make sure that I cleanse my hair properly and get the shampoo and conditioner completely out.
‘Foyle’s War’ made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on his soul, but he never let his personal demons get in the way of what was best for our country.
I hate Sridevi. I hate her for making me realise that she, too, is finally only just a human being. I hate that her heart, too, has to beat to live.
A rock star, according to my definition, is someone who inspires people around him with something he is best at. In my case, it’s music, but I wanted audiences to realise there is a rock star waiting to be unleashed within them as well.
I didn’t realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe and couldn’t find any.
Your name or what you’ve done on the rugby pitch is not going to carry you through for the rest of your life. I realise I’m going to have to eventually do something else, and that does frighten me a little bit.
There are matches you have to win, but when you realise that you cannot win, you have to make sure you don’t lose.
I think what I was unconsciously expressing in ‘Black Rainbow’ was a very abstract and metaphorical grief, in the way I had suppressed my grief about my mother dying. In retrospect I realise I started writing ‘Mandy’ as a sort of antidote to that, to sort of express those emotions, to purge that grief.
It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.
