George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.

Even the people who do great jokes, [it's] always coming out of a very real place.

I think people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect.

Everything I say, it comes from the heart. It's all real.

I don't really do anything unless it's from the heart - I don't like to joke on people, or distract them from something they love.

Only love is real...everything else is illusion

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

Once you realize that what I’m saying is true and comes from the heart, then it’s easy. But if you see it all as a façade and just a presentation of affected emotion, then it’s not so easy, it’ll just confuse you.

Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)

I think everything needs to be played real, for reality's sake, for truth. And that is the drama and the comedy. When you do that, it's funnier. And when you do that, you really do hit the emotional beats. I do it the same way as I do a drama. I just play it for truth, and then maybe have a little bit of fun with it sometimes.

Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.

I don't mind reminding people it's a movie, or that you're telling a story. Everybody knows this, but for some reason, we want to be real. I don't get it, I like the fakeness of my craft. I don't think the audience minds-they all know we're making a movie.

I love to see when people are real passionate about what they feel and what they say.

A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.

When you're being real, that's endearing to an audience. When you're not being real and you're making jumps to things that don't really follow how they would in reality, people don't appreciate that.

In acting class, you talked always about keeping it real and don't act... connect with the people and connect with the partner that you're acting with. The same is also true in politics.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in. So I had to pick songs that I felt the same about.

Girl I know it's real cause I've been around it. You only want what's real you just never found it

I think the best way people can connect to you is by being real

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

What comes deep comes true.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

Everybody is trying to make something real, something with a core of substance, and of course, an exciting action movie with a lot of terrific stuff and fantastic visuals and everything, but at the core of it, it's a movie with substance and something that is going to make people think.