Being Quotes

I went from being married to living on my own in L.A., to having a new boyfriend and just being totally self-sufficient and super independent. It's awesome. I love it!

People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right.

I’ve come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone. We have to be alone to do what we do.

The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.

It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.

Who doesn't want to go to the Emmys? But it ends up just being really boring.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

Never being happy isn't the same as being unhappy. Is it?

Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence.

I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.

I think people feel safer being sad than they do being joyful.

What the artist should be asking is, "Am I being honest? Am I being myself? Am I searching for the truth? Am I reporting my experience of life and the world as I see and experience it?

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.

No one pays me to be nice.

I always tell people that my primary job is being a dad and husband. Music is just what pays the bills.

That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours.

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

Home is where you can be yourself.

I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

I've always liked older ladies. I'm comfortable with it. They seem to be nice. They've seen it all.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

Actors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario.

[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.

All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.

Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.

I'm just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can. I've just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.

I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being's fibers need to hit the gym.

Service dogs raise their masters' sense of well-being.

What you see on the campaign trail is me. It's easy being me.

I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.

Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.

I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

The biggest challenge to being an actor is when you're not working, just being unemployed, the downtime and not having anything to do.

It can't be 'true' love without the truth

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

The power of good film is being there in the moment.

Being popular doesn't mean you're better than anyone else.

It doesn't make sense to change who you are just to hang out with people you think are cool. You know, you just have to be yourself.