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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.

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.

Quotes by Judith Rossner

People are real quick to jump at the easiest way to define you.

Quotes by Judge Reinhold

At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion.

Quotes by Judd Gregg

Real Madrid is a great club, and I will have some great players at my disposal who all want to help improve the level of the team.

Quotes by Juan Ramon Lopez Caro

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

Quotes by Josiah Royce

Public influence is the real government of the world.

Quotes by Josiah Warren

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

Quotes by Josiah Warren

And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is,...

Quotes by Josie Maran

What I like about 'Lay the Favourite' is that it shows gambling as a profession, as this real grind-it-out job, with no glamour about it at all.

Quotes by Joshua Jackson

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Quotes by Joshua Reynolds

We donate time, expertise, and resources to a wide array of charitable and nonprofit organizations around the world each year through partnership initiatives that make a real difference in our communities.

Quotes by Joshua Bekenstein

Thankfully, I don't have a real mullet.

Quotes by Josh McDermitt

I want people to know I'm a real person, that I don't have someone running my Instagram; I don't have someone prewriting all of my interviews and stuff.

Quotes by Josh Rosen

It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.

Quotes by Josh Hartnett

My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!

Quotes by Josh Hartnett

President Trump has challenged Congress to reduce the burden on the American worker and to build an economy that rewards honest work. Congress should accept that challenge and craft a bipartisan plan that makes real reductions in what government demands...

Quotes by Josh Hawley

If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.

Quotes by Josh Homme

The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.

Quotes by Josh Klinghoffer

I don't think Philadelphia's challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here.

Quotes by Josh Kopelman

After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Dostoevsky. And that classics train dropped me off at 'Dracula.' Halfway through it, I understood I'd never be going back, never 'leaving' the...

Quotes by Josh Malerman

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.