Keeping It Real Quotes

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do.

I keep it real normal, like I don’t try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I’m on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.

I’ve never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it’s a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

No one’s better than me. I’m not better than anyone. Whether it’s Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.

I have a whole lot of fun in trying to serve others and just keeping it funky, trying to keep it real, trying to ensure that we are able to be ourselves and get beyond these deodorized discourses and deodorized spaces that put on masks.

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

I am just trying to keep it real.

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I’m always about keeping it real. If that’s how I’m living, that’s how I’m living.

Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn’t afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.

Fatherhood means a great deal to me. I love it. To me, there aint nothing better, because your kids keep it real with you. When you think things are bad, you look at them and they show you how things could be all right, and it’s all worth it.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.

Acting is never done. We’re trying to keep it real and make sure that you’re entertained and it seems unrehearsed.

I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I’m off it, I’m very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I’m making the underground music, and keeping it real.

I know it’s going to sound like a clichГ©, but the key of successful playing a role is to sort of keep it real and earnest and react the way that one would react in those situations. Where the disconnect between the movie and the audience would happen is if you go too big or too crazy with that stuff.

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.