Realized Quotes

I saw what it means to work every weekend and every night, and I realized it doesn't work for me. It's not necessary. If you know what you want, you can achieve it without going crazy.

When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.

As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.

At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

I waved to you outside but then I realized it was just one of those inflatable parking lot gorillas.

Before I realized I had faults, I was already joking about it, to get attention. By the time I went to high school, I had a pretty practiced routine down.

You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.

I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling rise.

I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?

I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.

Drink to me! I just realized that I've slept with everyone at this table! ~Nell

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.

And that's when I realized, when you're a kid you don't need a costume, you ARE superman.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.

I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative.

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

This is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.

With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

I've learned that each day is definitely a gift. When my dad died, I made sure I said everything to him. I realized that once he's gone, he's gone. No matter how angry or resentful or whatever.

That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.

At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice.

I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too.

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

Spending time in jail really helped me stay away from what my brother did because I got a taste of jail time. I realized this isn't the life I want to live being locked up 24 hours a day.

I was always drawn to music. It consumed my thoughts and when I realized I could make people feel something through music that is all I wanted to do.

A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.

I started pulling gags on Al [Pachino]. That was the moment I realized that he was absolutely out of his mind. I mean that he's certifiably insane. I wouldn't spend a night in a room where he's at.

I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.

I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?

At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.

I always knew I had this voice, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I realized I had the power to do something with it.

I realized that the one person who could break my heart is the only one who should have it.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

The moment where I realized how little I actually was, was when Dave Bautista picked me off the ground and I still wasn't even at his pec yet. I was like, "Oh my God, this man is massive."

I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.

I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

I took my fear to literal heights and went skydiving over a year ago. It was in that moment, gazing over the precipice of the plane, when I realized what scared me the most, the unknown.

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

I realized that there are just certain things in life that are private. I have things in my past - like everyone - that I'm not proud of.

I think the first time I realized I was actually acting was during Felicity. Before that, I was just going along for the ride.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

I realized there were no words or anything in my music, nothing that people would have to draw them in a little bit more.

I used to feel like I had to be the best at what I did, but I realized I don't have to be the best. It's so freeing. I've never been this happy.