Really Quotes

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.

Man, I really like Vegas.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I feel like I'm at a really happy, good space.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.