Jay Roach Quotes

In his life, [Dalton] Trumbo uses wit and comedy to fight these very high-stakes battles.

Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.

I try to be more goofy when I'm on set now that I'm more comfortable. In real life, I'm so goofy and super weird. I'm never mean but people don't see the weird side of me.

I'm obviously not going to give you everything about my whole life, but as far as my personality, you see me all the time from watching the games.

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case. 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.

Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.

When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.

The thing that I come across is that people think that I might actually be super aggressive, want-to-fight type in real life. The irony is that that's just not true, at all.

People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective.

It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife.

...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.

I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.

Michelle [Obama] never fully took to the scrutiny. I mean, she's thrived as a first lady, but it's not her preference.

People have this impression that I'm a little kooky, but I'm actually very OCD.

...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for companionship and to teach something religious, of religious reverence, about real life, in this real world which literature should (and here does) reflect.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

That's a trick question Peter. It's real-life. Master P is a thug. He's poppin' everybody.

I think I lead a really real life.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in real life.

One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we've got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well.

I'll be able to pull off playing an unlikable character because inherently, I think I'm likable.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last. People want something real and natural, and if they catch you acting, you're dead. It has to look real. In order to look real, it has to be real, and I've always thought of the characters I've played as real people.