School is tough sometimes, but it’s all about knowing who your real friends are.
I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.
What good were real feelings anyway?
I couldn’t tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.
Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.
I like that ‘once upon a time’ quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There’s a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they’re real world based.
And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not.
To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.
I never base characters on real people – you can get into so much trouble that way!
In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you’ve left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for you. It’s the change of venue, the unblocking the attempt to force the ideas that’s crippling you when you’re trying to write.
You know how you’re always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it’s real difficult in life.
Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context.
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.