Eduardo Galeano Quotes

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

I come out of real life.

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.

Whatever your walk of life is, I think you have to be real about it.

I couldn't continue to live in a bubble and hope to be an empathic actor. It doesn't work.

I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.

I can be overly confident at times, but with someone who I'm very close to, like with my mother, I will break down. In real life, people will find out that I'm not actually that confident and that I'm a real guy underneath it all.

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.

I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.

I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.

The good life is one that's artistically made.

Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.

I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don't want to play that person in real life. Because then people won't like me so much.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.

Most people who know me know I'm not switched on all the time. I don't like to be like that in real life, because it's draining.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.