Being Quotes
On identity, openness and staying true to yourself.
This set of quotes explores what it means to simply be: holding onto a child's spontaneity, embracing honesty that feels inappropriate in creative work, or aging with flexibility instead of resistance. For more on self-belief, see our Able quotes.
First and foremost, I want to give thanks to Indiana, as a state, for embracing me and my family for seven years of being there. I learned so much being there. They taught me so much.
Always being an underdog, always being the player or the person nobody really knew, that always kept a chip on my shoulder.
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I might be nervous off the court, being booed. But being on the court, it's my comfort zone. It's basketball. It's what I do. I'm not losing sleep over it.
Being in a band is hard. Even if you like somebody, you start to argue over silly things.
That's the nice thing about being in Mr. Big, is I'm not only the guitar player. I'm the background singer, and so I get to do both of those things. Sometimes we even switch instruments and I get to be...
Being a fan of pop music and rock bands, I am a reluctant convert into the art of instrumental rock music.
I did take some cooking classes in high school. Boys weren't really supposed to take them. I had to risk being made fun of.
One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.
Being in Los Angeles, I've had access to some of the best improvisers around and I really study them and what they do. It really it just about listening and what you can add to it.
What I do with impressions, I try not to be mean-spirited. To me, it's just about being silly.
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.
I've never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.
So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.
Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling.
There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail as a work of art because of it being horror. Anyone saying otherwise is being intellectually dishonest.
I'm certainly no hardcore backpacker, but I do enjoy being out in the woods for a few hours.
