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Real Quotes

On staying grounded in what's real.

This set plays with double meanings, from researchers chasing clever ideas over practical relevance to a footballer's memories of a transfer away from a famous Spanish club. For more on genuine feeling, see Like.

I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in.

Quotes by Sterling Marlin

The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.

Quotes by Steve Allen

It often seems that, for whatever strange reasons, comedians, in addition to their formal performances, have more comic experiences in real life than other people do.

Quotes by Steve Allen

It's a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different categories, and we are all taking footnotes from everyone else. There are no real genre boundaries anymore; you can take a trance idea and...

Quotes by Steve Aoki

Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.

Quotes by Steve Ballmer

On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

Quotes by Stephen R. George

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn...

Quotes by Stephen Lang

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar...

Quotes by Stephen Fry

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

Quotes by Stephen F. Lynch

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

Quotes by Stephen F. Lynch

Folks, I mean to keep my word. And if I don't, I'll give you my address and some rope. That's real accountability.

Quotes by Stephen Fincher

There's Frog Jump on my GPS, so it's there. It's a real place.

Quotes by Stephen Fincher

I really feel like we have drifted too far away from real America.

Quotes by Stephen Fincher

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.

Quotes by Stephen Carter

My favorite commencement addresses are the ones that get real and don't make too many promises.

Quotes by Stephanie Ruhle

I'd love to be in a real boxing match, but I can't because of my face. I'm an actor!

Quotes by Stephanie Sigman

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

Quotes by Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Quotes by Stephanie Laurens

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

Quotes by Stephan Jenkins

Second marriages can and do create 'real' families.

Quotes by Stephanie Coontz

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about cryptography or technical research?
Yes. One quote observes that a lot of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues, and are more focused on discovering things clever enough to write papers about. It's a candid critique of research for its own sake. Browse Know quotes for more insight-driven lines.
Does this page include the same baseball confession found on other topic pages?
Yes - one quote here reads: "I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad." It shows up here because it uses real as an intensifier, alongside its baseball subject matter.
Is there a quote about a football transfer between clubs?
Yes. One quote reflects on being sold from Real Madrid to Inter, saying the speaker would have preferred to have remained in Spain. It's a personal look at how a transfer can feel from the player's side. For more on preferences and personal choices, see Like quotes.
Is there a quote about the movie "Scream"?
Yes - one quote notes that in 'Scream,' there is very real drama that would be in almost any drama, pointing out that even a horror franchise can carry genuine emotional weight. For more reflections on everyday life and entertainment, browse Life quotes.
What does "real" mean across these different quotes?
It covers a lot - real-world application in research, real bad as an intensifier in baseball slang, the real experience of being transferred between football clubs, and the real drama within a horror movie. For more quotes that return to familiar words in new contexts, see Always quotes.

A film quote points to drama that feels real rather than staged, tying the theme back to authenticity in storytelling. Explore related pages such as Know and Life.