Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonah Hill

I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake.

Jonah Hill

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy. If you're trying to have a normal conversation, you've got to have a normal conversation. If you're trying to make them sad, you've got to make them sad. I think that's how you get real performances out of people.

Jonah Hill

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

Michael Newdow

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

Elayne Boosler

Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.

Elayne Boosler

I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

Edward Thorndike

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

Edward T. Hall

Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?

Edward Weston

Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the wholeness of life - sublimating things seen into things known.

Edward Burnett Tylor

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

Edward Carpenter

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped — to reach it. For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.

Edward Burns

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that ‘do what makes you happy’ thing in check.

Edward Coke

It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto—it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.

Edward de Bono

Perception is real even when it is not reality.

Edward de Bono

Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.

Edward de Bono

The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.

Edward de Bono

(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.

Edward Bach

Humans have a soul which is their real higher self; a Divine, Mighty, Being.

Edward Bach

The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.

Edward Bond

I'm interested in the real world.

Edward Bellamy

The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own organizations, read women as easily and accurately as women read each other. They are alert to detect and interpret those smallest trifles in tone, expression, and bearing, which betray the real mood far more unmistakably than more obvious signs.

Edward Albee

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

Edward Albee

What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

Edward Albee

Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.

Edward Albee

In rehearsals I get so completely wrapped up with the reality that's occurring on stage that by the time the play has opened I'm not usually quite as aware of the distinctions between what I'd intended and the result. There are many ways of getting the same result.

Edward Albee

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

Edith Evans

If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.

Edgerrin James

I take pride in whatever I do. If you told me to clean the room up, I'd clean it up real good.

Edgerrin James

I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living.

Edie Sedgwick

Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you can’t really remember the difference between what’s real and what you’ve created in your head?

Edith Hamilton

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

Edith Hamilton

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

Eckhart Tolle

So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.