Being Quotes

Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.

And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

We love being in love, that's the truth on't.

It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].

A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.

Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.

Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.

I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief

I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.

I think it's really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.

I'm 44 years old. So, it's really great to watch younger generations getting their opportunities, and being there to support them in that.

You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.

Operate from a place of love, be kind, and be yourself.

Love is people telling you when you do something wrong and being there to celebrate when you do something right!

I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.

Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.

You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.

When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

I was an ignored guy and have been for many years. But I suppose I became well-known after being ignored. After the release of the CDs and LPs, especially the LPs, people like it. I was impressed.

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

Even if I'm being selfish, but I want you to only look at me.

People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on earth better than being famous.

You're not supposed to be accepting trophies. You're supposed to be in the back being mad that people are getting trophies.

I want a lot of young people to see me in my working environment. I want them to see me being a good person while also running a business. I want young people to aspire to that.

I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

Compromise to please others is not as good as integrity that annoys others. Rather than be praised without being good, it is better to be slandered without being bad.

Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.

My job as a double was always to put [actors] at ease. My job was to make my character, or the actress that I was doubling, look as badass as possible by being there.

I've worked with a lot of really famous people. It stops being weird really quickly. For me, at least.

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is being a woman in a man's world.

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

On the basis of being a woman, by playing an alien, I avoid playing someone's girlfriend here on Earth because that's a bit of a canker sore.

Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

Authenticity is about what makes you, you. It is an expression of your beingness.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

The human body is not necessarily a human being.

Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.

When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital.

To love the creations of the Earth is to worship the Being who created them.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

A person without a purpose is a human being merely breathing because he does not know where he is, let alone knowing where he is going. Purposelessness is lifelessness.

For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.

Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.