Top 680 Actual Quotes

I love green juices – the ones that include lots of actual greens and don’t include too much apple. Because those are just meant to be yummy, and we all know things that are too yummy aren’t the best for us, unfortunately.
Chrissy Teigen
I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
Haruki Murakami
I was a bouncer when I was in DePaul in Chicago at the theater school. I threw drunks out of bars – unless I had a play running that weekend. But I only had two actual fights. Some were like out of old Westerns.
W. Earl Brown
You’ve got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.
Jim DeMint
I have a weird obsession with wearing not just fashion sneakers, but actual sneakers that have bounce, because I want to feel like I’m in an active state.
Lake Bell
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
Hugh Prather
I’m obsessed with nature and living in the wild, which I just think is crazy. Imagine if a bear attacked you! That’s an actual possible way you could die.
Chelsea Peretti
I predict that technology will enable people to transmit their neuronal, actual feelings over the Internet.
Michio Kaku
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D. H. Lawrence
In terms of my actual acting, I don’t really like to to copy anyone or replicate anything that I’ve seen.
Dacre Montgomery
We have seen things in the twentieth century like the ATM machine, the VCR, and even the car. The electric car was invented in 1920, and here we, 100 years later, it is only now becoming an actual thing. So it doesn’t surprise me that new ideas are met with a lot of questions.
Joe Gebbia
I love working with the actors eye-to-eye. I think something gets lost in translation, not only through a monitor, but when you leave the area where the actual scene is taking place.
Drew Barrymore
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
Alfred Korzybski
IMDb publishes the actual dates of birth of thousands of actors without their consent, most of them not celebrities but rank-and-file actors whose names are unknown to the general public.
Ken Howard
Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations.
Duncan Hunter
Any cuts that are done to any film, they’re usually things that have some personal resonance for whoever has got permission to cut it and feels they should. But it has very little to do with the actual weight, the truth, of the piece.
Nicolas Roeg
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.
Herman Gorter
When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame decided to open up the voting beyond their inner circle, to the actual fans, that’s when I think everything changed.
John Oates
The reason people talk about cable cutting is they imagine the price burden will get so high that people won’t be able to pay it. They’re missing something: that the actual price of the electronic package is going down. They’ve got their Internet, phone, TV, all of it. Now people are using more and more stuff for less.
Jeff Bewkes
The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can’t see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
Safra A. Catz
One of the reasons why I signed up with Roc Nation was because of their ability to not just have a vision of doing things but the actual ability and resources to carry that vision out.
Andre Ward
Even if you plan your book, the actual writing is unplanned.
Michelle Paver
I wrote a book called ‘Doll Bones’, which was another middle-grade book, and when I was writing it, I needed a place in the U.S. that made bone china. And there are only two places in the U.S. that make bone china. They made it by grinding down actual cow bones. It was a plot point. It was a creepy doll book.
Holly Black
I was acting before I had given my life to Christ. But the effect that God has had on my actual career itself is now completely different.
Malachi Kirby
I guess, like most foreigners, when you're away, you se

I guess, like most foreigners, when you’re away, you see your own culture being even more strange. But where I come from and my roots mean a lot. I miss my family and my friends. Something I’ve realized as I’ve been traveling is that it’s more about the actual people than the actual place.
Alicia Vikander
My actual biggest claim to fame is that – basically, this sounds awful and really pretentious – but my Twitter is verified. And if you’re already verified on Twitter, then your Vine is automatically verified.
Miles Heizer
I used to draw and illustrate, but I don’t do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.
Meg Cabot
An actual scientist embraces debate because it sharpens their research.
Greg Gutfeld
Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.
Isadora Duncan
I got my first kiss while watching ‘Titanic’, oddly enough, so I think I was more focused on that than the actual movie.
Cristin Milioti
I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.
Seth Grahame-Smith
I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.
Janet Suzman
Think about it: If you don’t have any actual, tangible skills, then how can you do anything? You may be laughing and nodding, but do you realize how few people, when asked the basic question, ‘What can you do?’ stumble on the answer and have nothing to say? Most people.
Tucker Max
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I’d have fewer imaginary ones.
Don Herold
Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
Mason Cooley
I often find myself writing little ditties I can imagine becoming rap songs. Not the actual rapping part, just the chorus.
Tobias Jesso, Jr.
I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.
Etgar Keret
We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.
David Milne
I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they’re also very attuned to those moments.
Jenny Zhang
In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
J. F. C. Fuller
The performance of your position coaches is obviously more than just the actual statistics of how their players perform. There’s insight from relationships you have around the league throughout all the different interactions that you have.
Mike McCarthy
I want to make movies that pierce people’s hearts and touch them in some way, even if it’s just for the night while they’re in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.
Russell Crowe
Actually it’s a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It’s like time travelling, being inside a history book, in the actual locations.
Sebastian Koch
I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!
Rik Mayall
There are so many problems with feminism, as women spend a lot of time telling other women what to do, and that distracts from the actual problem.
Lauren Mayberry
Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.
Philip Roth
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed ‘steampunks.’ Although they utilized many of the same tropes and touchstones employed later by twenty-first-century writers of steampunk, in their contemporary hands these devices represented state-of-the-art speculation.
Paul Di Filippo
I use the traditional phone noise that’s built into iOS. I like an actual ringing sound.
Steve Huffman
Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.
John Darnielle
Can you explore real issues as a fake character? Yes – it’s called acting. Or fiction. But acting is not a method of engaging with the actual world, just as pretending to know what a character might eat does not a novel make – much less make that make-believe real.
Kevin Young
I try to use and, furthermore, strive to focus on the actual facts surrounding and impacting any issue.
Matt Rosendale
I’ve never had an actual haunting experience, in the way you might anticipate a ghost in a movie haunting someone, but I do feel presences around me all the time, and I do feel that memories haunt us the way ghosts haunt us or might haunt characters in a film.
David Lowery
When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it’s not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.
Roy Blount, Jr.