Actual Quotes

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.

Most people don’t like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it’s difficult to metabolize.

I actually find in America, there’s a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intrigues me, because that doesn’t exist in the same way in Britain. And I imagine it would be worse.

The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

Things happen differently when you’re actually here, so you can’t put out a general guideline that’s gonna show up in text and be interpreted. There are no rules. Just be yourself.

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.