Real Quotes

You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that’s one of the biggest honors of my life.

That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.

I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’

I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.

That’s your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.

In other words, I wouldn’t like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviourally wild, and it’s crazy to think of any form where it’s just one way.

I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.

The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.

Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory.