My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.

I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too.

You have to experience real life before you can understand what it means to really worship. That's it.

In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.

I wouldn't want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn't for the life of me do the job in real life.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

I think safely experiencing fear by watching a horror movie makes real life a little less frightening.

Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.

I'm terribly bad at lying in real life. I flush, look away, do the scratching of the nose, or whatever.

I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it.

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.

I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

It's nice to be able to play a guy who gets to say all the things that you don't get to say in real life.

We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.

I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life.

I'm actually a hippy in real life. I had three dreadlocks on the back of my head once. They were spawning.

I don't like to talk hypotheticals. I deal with the real life situations. I treat every day as a blessing.

When you meet your best friend in real life, or you meet your soulmate, you just know it, and you feel it.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.

In real life, people don't try to live dramatically, people try to live in a light way. People try to laugh.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

I think there'll always be things that kids get into that they grow out of when they start living real life.

When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them.

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

I might play characters that are loud in the movies, but in real life, I'm not loud in terms of personality.

Being really likeable all the time is just not real life, so it's your duty to make a well-rounded character.

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

I just don't do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet and real life.

I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.

I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.

When I'm filming, I live out of a suitcase, so everything is thrown everywhere. In real life, I'm a bit tidier.

In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time.

I love it when I get to play characters that are much younger than I am in real life. I feel it's an advantage.

Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'

The fans always ask me, 'Is Si that crazy in real life?' and I said, 'No, hey, he tones it down for television.'

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