Being Real Quotes - Page 3

Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.

Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations.

When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.

Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.

Everything we can dream can be real.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

Just be real with yourself right now. We beat ourself.

If there's one thing worse than being really angry for no reason, it's suddenly remembering the reason.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment

Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Every choice you make as an actor ends up being really influential on your life, because you're spending a lot of time working on this project, and you want to make sure you're making good choices and you're not making them for the wrong reasons. I just want to be careful and not jump into anything.

One of the traps of auditioning is walking into that room feeling as though you're a guest in someone's house, and being really careful not to spill wine on the carpet. What you have to do is walk in there as though you're the host.

Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana.

I remember being really grateful that David Lynch had actually even thought of casting me, because I was a huge fan of his.

There is a generation begging for you to be real... and to be real now.

If the Devil is real, then God must be real, too.

At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.

I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.

How can depression be real if our eyes arent real?