Being Quotes

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

You must be wise, but not too wise.

That is when you need faith the most. Not when everything is going your way, not when you have much to be thankful for, but when there is darkness all around.

Love has to be reciprocated for it to be real.

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.

You don't want to not be single because you're scared of being single.

Merely being human is morally significant.

It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.

Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.

Spreading the word about real issues is still helping. Just being conscious of helping animals every day will help guide you to make beneficial decisions for animals.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.

I like to remember what I have to be thankful for. When it gets bad, I usually list them out loud to my wife and myself. Helps me maintain a balanced perspective.

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

Pretend and it will be true.

All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.

This is the hardest job I've ever had, being a mom, but it's the most rewarding job I've ever had.

Aw, now look at that, you're being sarcastic, aren't you?

I'll be honest, I like everything about my body.

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

I don't really want to control anyone, to be honest.

Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame.

No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier.

Be yourself! And then tell us about it! And then let's dance!

We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.

Being bad. Discomfort with your body. Bad self image. All those things turn you into an artist. The same things that keep you from being in a proper marriage.

I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy with what I was doing.

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that.

I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.

I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.

The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better.

Being honest about where you come from and what your story is is the only way to connect to other people, to really connect with them.

I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.

Uh, yeah, this is the VD clinic calling. Speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love.

There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

Good looks only take you so far. You don't have to be the best looking guy.

Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!

We actors can't say every line as if it has weight, but what we want to do is be true to the meaning of each line, whatever it is. Even the lines that are throwaway may come back later.

I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough of a declaration of intent.

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.