Realistic Quotes
Knowing exactly where your limits are.
These realistic quotes center on self-knowledge — knowing your own boundaries, portraying darker sides of a character honestly, and reassessing calmly after a loss. See our Identity quotes for more.
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I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.
In terms of my looks in 'Brothers,' it's definitely not a glamourised look. It is very realistic.
To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.
In indies, life is very dark and realistic, and in mainstream films, the edges are all rounded off and very sentimentalized.
The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
If films don't work, you have to be realistic and keep taking up television projects.
There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
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A common note across this set is acting on clear-eyed self-assessment rather than illusion. For related reflection, browse our Clarity and Perspective quotes.
