It's Been Real Quotes

I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic. — Patrick Fischler

It's hard to feel alive when you've been obliterated inside, hard to feel real when you no longer remember how to dream. — J.M. Darhower

As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one." — Robert Baden-Powell

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing. — Erykah Badu

I'd been living on dreams so long it was hard to know if any one of the fifteen things happening inside my head was real. — Brenna Yovanoff

It's interesting to take a look at people who deal with prejudice on a daily basis - it's been a real eye opener for me. — Deborah Ann Woll

I've been known to slum it and shop in the gag-him-and-bag-him aisles, believe it or not. — Tammara Webber

It is not important what would you do for your love, what matters is what have you been doing for it. — M.F. Moonzajer

A period in which he had been so afloat from himself that even as he had lived his life, it had felt dreamlike and not quite real; — Hanya Yanagihara

Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing - or more complicated - than it is today. — Sharon Salzberg

Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better if there had been pain. Pain was at least real. — Stephen King

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it. — Joshua Lederberg

I do like the iPhone. I've been a Blackberry person from, like, literally day one of Blackberry, so it's been a real switch, but it's a great device. — Julius Genachowski

It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest. But in a way I'm glad...the pain is my only reminder that he was real... — Stephenie Meyer

It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known. — George Washington

It was as if the tide of him had been ebbing from her, but she knew, like a real tide, time would bring him back. — Lauren Groff

There aren't a lot of guys out there keeping it real. Everybody's been branded. Everybody's been bought and sold. — Tracy Morgan

Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible. — J.K. Rowling

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist. — Stephen Carter

It was as if real life had been canceled for the day. — Jennifer Weiner

It's been so long since I was in a real fight. — Method Man

The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it. — Chetan Bhagat

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real. — Jasper Fforde

I stoped reading science fiction once I saw that the UFO was real. It became science fact that just hasn't been proven yet. — Mike Bird

Real art has been ... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business. — Vivienne Westwood

There's never been a real destination resort in Asia, and when we open the Venetian Macao, it will be the first. — Sheldon Adelson

Must have been quite the culture shock, going there."
"Yes it was." Idris doesn't say that the real culture shock has been in coming back. — Khaled Hosseini

Her love has been always unrequited, but until now it wasn't real love. Now it hurts, and that's how she knows it is real. — Ellen Litman

I'm a real goof-ball deep down. It's always been my thing to make people like me. — Rita Ora

Now we live in fairyland. The only lightly disappointing thing about this land is that it is smaller than the real world has ever been. — Frigyes Karinthy

She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had been dashed down and broken. It was gone. — Henry James

The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language. — John Banville

I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life. — Rob Zombie

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything. — Maureen Johnson

I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine. — NeNe Leakes

The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried. — Henry Parry Liddon

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge. — Mark Dayton

I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person. — Sally Field

What makes the gospel good news isn't the concept, but the real-life person who has been changed by it.[90] — Jen Hatmaker

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States. — John Ratzenberger

It's him, it always has been and it always will be ~ the only thing left now is timing. — Nikki Rowe

I've always been real close to film world. I love film, and I will do things in film, but music is more satisfying. It feels more like me. — Robert Coppola Schwartzman

My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can't be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters. — Colleen Hoover

I bought an Apple iPad and it was out of date sooner than a real apple would have been. We — Karl Pilkington

A real treasure becomes such only after it's been desperately sought after. — Richelle E. Goodrich

There aren't any type of programs which I have been used to do this... it's real as hell and death was in my pocket. - DeYtH Banger — Deyth Banger

It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program ... So far this has been a very successful rehab. — Peter Hobson

I LOVE homeschooling and want others who have been led to do it to love it, too. — Tamara L. Chilver

I've been married twice and I've tried to make it work but I feel I haven't had a real marriage yet. — Jennifer Lopez

Real life is so secret that not even I, who am dying of it, have been given the password, I am dying without knowing of what. — Clarice Lispector

Centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been until now. — David Friedrich Strauss

The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued ... I've been lucky, I guess. — Padma Lakshmi

I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real. — Dyan Cannon

To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting. — Piet Mondrian

It had not been a lonely childhood, though many of her intimates had been somewhat less than real. — Gabrielle Zevin

My hair looks like it had been purchased at a rummage sale after all the real hair was gone. — Haven Kimmel

He smiled, a real smile, the kind real boys gave real girls. "It's been a very long time since anyone worried for me. — Holly Black

I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar player and some other guys. — Robbie Robertson

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me. — Iris Dement

What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal. — Jack Kerouac

I want the real deal whatever that means and whatever it takes to get there so I've been exploring.. — Chuck Smith

It was a vague belief that she herself was not quite real - or that she did not belong to the life she had been born into. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

It's always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened. — William Kentridge

It wasn't often that you got to meet your real life hero, but I had been blessed to have him for a father. — Katie Ashley

The real greatness tends to be a verb much more than an adjective, and it's a duty preceding been an honour. — Ammar Moussa

I've been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there's a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful. — Ali Larter

But that, after all, was the point of romantic folly. If it hadn't all gone horribly wrong, it wouldn't have been the real thing. — Edward St. Aubyn

It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for. It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate. — Amy Poehler

Maybe that's the mark of a real leader. Admitting a mistake has been made and finding a way to stop it at all costs. — Joelle Charbonneau

If that moment had been a real thing, it would've been a butterfly, flapping and fluttering toward the sun. — Maggie Stiefvater

For seventy years we have been brushing our teeth and yet they have not become clean, so is that thing for real or is it a falsity? — Dada Bhagwan

When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told. — Richard Matheson

I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it. — John Darnielle

The only real tyrants that humanity has known have always been the memories of its dead or the illusions it has forged itself. — Gustave Le Bon

It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s. — Sheena Easton

Girl I know it's real cause I've been around it. You only want what's real you just never found it — Drake