Top 80 Real Thing Quotes

There’s nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.

Edam and Gouda are genuine Dutch cheeses, but the real thing is a lot less bland than the varieties most of us experience in the U.K.

Apparently, dirt eating is really a ‘real thing,’ and you can actually buy it in some stores and online.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

Fear is a real thing.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

There’s only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe – because I’ve done a little of this myself – pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

I’m sorry – I know America is supposed to be the land of the dreams and hopes, but it’s like, when was that actually a real thing? I think from the very beginning it was all a lie, and it still kind of is. Stop trying to sell the picket fence, because there’s another backyard here that you haven’t looked at.

What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they’re looking through a window at the real thing.

Regardless if I made it or not, I really wanted women’s MMA to be a real thing.

The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life.

I liked how ‘Star Wars’ felt both old and new. I even built a model of R2-D2, taking about two months mixing two kits to make one that looked just like the real thing. I’m the kind of person who gets really into it when I do something like that.

I’m a believer in belief. Faith is something that works – it causes people to do things, it has results. It’s an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

I think the best research is people you meet and things that they say, rather than second hand accounts of something. I think when you meet someone and talk to them, then you get the real thing and that’s what you can use. That’s the material you can actually put on the page.

So when I was a kid in Guyana, I would run barefoot in the street and bathe in the rain. That was a real thing. Picture that, showers falling from the sky in the middle of the Caribbean.

I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing – like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he’s a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

What I don’t believe is that DVDs or HD broadcasts can be a substitute for the real thing.

Hope is a real thing. It’s not pie in the sky.

Bob Dylan’s not a hype and a haircut: he’s the real thing.

Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It’s part of our grief process. If we don’t know what else to do, we laugh. That’s a very real thing.

With ‘SNL,’ it’s such an iconic institution. Throughout my 20s or maybe even in middle school or high school, it never felt like a real thing. It felt so distant, and I never imagined I could do that.

I love biscuits. I have a real thing for a biscuits, and if it’s not made right, I’m gonna come down hard on somebody.

With country, it’s hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing.

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

Special effects are becoming more and more affordable and looking more and more like the real thing.

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

After ‘The Real Thing,’ I thought about giving up acting because it’s difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you’re an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That’s what I thought, anyway.

I can’t read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.

I’ve had a great love for Al Pacino’s work since I first saw him on the stage doing ‘The Indian Wants the Bronx’ in the early ’70s. His work is remarkable. He’s the real thing.

I still deal with impostor syndrome. It’s a very real thing.

It was so emotional to step onto the Millennium Falcon set because that was the play set we all had when we were kids. Suddenly, you were standing in the real thing. There’s this rush of unreality about it.

I’m so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it’s just a very real thing in our country and culture.

Modern fake fur looks so much like real fur that the moment it leaves the atelier, no one can tell it’s not the real thing. And I’ve struggled with that.

If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want… well, that’s where you’re right. But – and I am only saying this because I care – there’s a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn’t the real thing. If you weren’t playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

Sometimes things can be a guilty pleasure, but with ‘Idol,’ everyone talks about it like it’s a real thing; they argue over who’s gonna win… There’s no laughing at it.

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

When people ask whether virtual reality will be a real thing or just the next 3D, what I always say is, ‘Take a headset, walk outside, and the next person you meet, put it on them and see what the reaction is.’

If you’re going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you’re going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn’t buy fresh pasta.

Cancer is a very real thing. it takes a lot of lives every year. It’s something we can always pursue and try to find a cure, and try to raise money.

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they’re getting the real thing.

People don’t understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great – he’s the real thing – but he isn’t having hits.

I have died in so many spectacular ways, and I remember shooting them all, too. I imagine all those deaths will flash in front of me when I’m on my death bed, faced with the real thing.

I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

‘Pyrapshere’ began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called ‘A Pretty Good Show.’ My partner, Andersen Gabrych, and I expanded it into a full-fledged faux-religion, including a list of 21 tenets, sacred symbols, testimonials, and even a clothing line. Many people believed it was a real thing and wanted to join.

Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it’s worth it. He’s the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.

I’ve come to understand that art is awesome and beautiful because it’s a reflection of life – but it’s just a reflection, and the real thing is my daughter.

People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it’s a real thing – the more love we spread around the world the more it’s going to change lives.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.

It was a very real thing, not a storyline thing when Randy Orton didn’t want me to get to a certain point in WWE.

I didn’t want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

At the end of the day, if you’re going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing.

For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets.