I always feel the cynicism is reality with maybe an alternate spelling or something because I feel that I have real perspective on this particular issue of punishment in society.
When you write the script, you’re home in a room by yourself, and you’re writing, and there’s no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.
I don’t like theatrical actors and actresses. I like people that talk like real human beings.
That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.
To me there’s no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They’re all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.
In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it.
There are only two real ways to get ahead today – sell liquor or drink it.
I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I’d had wonderful opportunities to study people; and every time I went out on the stage I tried to show the audience some bit of true human nature.
You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I’m loving and Lord I’ll love her ’til I’m dead.
Any real Bob Dylan fan would sleep with Jonah Lehrer.
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.
The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don’t think they have titles.
If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren’t your friends.
Marilyn Monroe wasn’t even her real name, Charles Manson isn’t his real name, and now, I’m taking that to be my real name. But what’s real? You can’t find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
Marilyn is real. I wake up and I am Marilyn.
It’s not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I’m an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doesn’t think about any of this stuff. Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me.
But what’s real? You can’t find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything’s a lie, you can’t hurt yourself.
I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It’s just not a real life.
I’m not a bit changed – not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out. The real me – back here – is just the same.