#real_life

The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand?Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#real-life #design

It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future. ↗

— Frances Conroy

#character #coming #future #get #god

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I. ↗

— Eydie Gorme

#ambitious #before #children #definitely #got

The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather. ↗

— Victoria Gotti

#casting #central #father #godfather #life

When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations. ↗

— Gustave Moreau

#emotions #even #find #fine #horror

There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#bases #because #character #did #emotional

I punch a lot of guys on set. It's much easier than in real life as your hands don't hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#easier #guys #hands #hurt #i

I think real life couples on screen are kind of deadly. For the most part, they're kind of deadly. You'd be surprised. Unless they're falling in love onscreen for the first time, you don't have quite the same energy for some reason. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#deadly #energy #falling #falling in love #first

I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#bed #come #get #go #hollywood

I looked for any footmarks of course, but naturally, with all this rain, there wasn't a sign. Of course, if this were a detective story, there'd have been a convenient shower exactly an hour before the crime and a beautiful set of marks which could only have come there between two and three in the morning, but this being real life in a London November, you might as well expect footprints in Niagara. I searched the roofs right along—and came to the jolly conclusion that any person in any blessed flat in the blessed row might have done it. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#novels #real-life #beauty