Being Quotes

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

Be thankful for quality competitors who push you to your limit.

Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.

Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift.

Gratefulness is a payment everyone can afford.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

Acting is my calling. It is one of the things I was meant to do in this world, along with being a mother.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

I'm the pink sheep in the family.

I release any feelings of competition or comparison. I simply do my best and enjoy being me.

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.

I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.

You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.

It's hard enough to be alive and human, without the additional burden of being me.

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.

You cannot keep on saying oh, you know, talking about disrespecting women as just being politically correct or it's not a big deal or brushing things off. You've got to be aware of it.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

It's not enough to be sick and tired of something. You've got to be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Multi-Tenancy is a requirement for a SaaS vendor to be successful

Life is too short to be a boring company.

If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.

I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing L'Oreal forever, and I can do that in my sleep.

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

I didn't get to be this smart by not being stupid

I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.

A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

I see myself being married to my girlfriend and backpacking all over the world. If I can go out and do a 15-mile hike and climb a 12,000-ft. peak, I'm good to go.

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

Now my fans are older and they understand how to appreciate me the same way I appreciate them for being there for me.