#real life

Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#back #back up #big #cleaned #draft

More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#had #i #key #life #more

On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#around #closer #does #figure #golf

On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#asked #average #below #big #depiction

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! ↗

— Andrew Gross

#bottom #california #central #chance #charles

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it. ↗

— Terry Gross

#edited #i #i love #life #love

Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#conduct #expect #friends #good #good guy

I'm extremely happy, but I don't do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that's such a personal thing to me. I'd rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#different #extremely #feels #happy #i

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#baby boomers #bad #bad guys #big #boomers

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#away #embrace #emotions #job #life