Quotes About Realism

I am a passionate actor, but I am also very practical.

Lighting practically whenever I can when shooting period really helps with authenticity.

Our words, actions, and diplomatic efforts should be aimed at trying to achieve pragmatic goals rather than creating rhetorical effect.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.

Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.

I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

I think you have to be pragmatic to the approach of life and brutally honest with yourself. We all are here to do something, and it is important to understand our potential first.

There are libertarians who are survivalists, who live in the middle of nowhere and who are ready for the world to end. And then there are pragmatists, and I would consider myself to be a pretty pragmatic person.

I'm not pro-fracking. But sometimes there's got to be some pragmatism.

One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism.

I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics.

The thing about Precious, she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew her.

The most real characters in a great play are those who are so meticulously drawn that the audience could predict how many pairs of shoes they might have in their closet or how many close friends they had in grade school. Have any of our public figures been as fully developed in the media?

Some people say, 'Well you're a man; how do you write about women or girls when you don't know about them?' Well, I've got my imagination, and I can write about women. Yes, I'll never be pregnant and give birth to children, but I can imagine a bit of what it's like. When you create characters, it's just about making them really real to people.

Sometimes in the Premier League, you are in a game where you can't play nice football because you just wouldn't win it.

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.

I don't prepare for wearing a bikini; I always have a bit of a tummy.

I've got no pretence that I want to do 'Hamlet' or anything, I know my limitations.

I want a politics that doesn't need to pretend to be holy or perfect or infallible. I want a politics that gets on with it.

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.

I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.