Being Quotes

Both my mom and my grandma were really big influences on me not only by being strong and teaching me to be strong but also owning their salt as well.

It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person.

I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice.

When you learn to die, you learn to live.

We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.

Be yourself, know your power, have confidence in what you have to contribute.

If there is anything you can do, it may just be to smile for them. Because when you smile, the world seems just a little kinder. For you to just be yourself is a very important thing, I think.

My career is inexplicable to me. So far I've just been not getting fired despite being myself.

We live with a future where every three or four months, we have to question everything. You think you could be the best, or that you're nothing and you don't know what you're doing. It is exhausting.

I don't hate Coldplay to be cool I genuinely hate Coldplay.

Being disappointed is sometimes an inevitable outcome that no one can control.

I get a kick out of the fact that people will pick on the writers in California for being responsible for the content. The people seriously responsible for the content are the people who buy it.

The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

Let's stop being afraid ... to seem intolerant

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged.

One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.

I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

I love horror movies and I love being scared, but I don't like them, if they're not based on a true story. It's like knowing how the sausage is made.

I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it's changed everything in so many ways.

Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.

Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before.

We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without any shame, without holding back, without being judged for it.

but I felt as if I’d just been Photoshopped out of my own book cover. And if there was one thing I wasn’t used to, it was being ignored

It's always exciting that you can rub elbows with some of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and just being around the "family" again from baseball.

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.

Authenticity is critical to leadership. That means trying to be yourself - this involves some self-disclosure, admitting what you don't know and being willing to ask questions.

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

If you want to be the best, find the best in others.

If it's true you learn from your mistakes, Jim Frey will be the best manager ever

I've never really considered myself as being the best bodybuilder. I always try to let the people decide that. I just try to do the best I can do at whatever it is that I'm doing.

I asked myself if I was genuinely happy and realized I had to change if I wanted to be able to do things with my kids, get rid of the pains in my hips and knees, and stop being judged.

Let lovers be crazy, disgraceful and wild Those who fret about such things Aren’t in love.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

Women aren't interested in being sexy any more and men are. All the guys have objectified themselves and sexualised themselves into being just matinee idols.

That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.