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.
It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!
We have people we admire, like Einstein, saying mystery is the most beautiful thing a human being can experience. Yet, everywhere in our culture, everything that is truly mysterious is immediately dismissed.
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I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.
Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.
'Star Trek' was a big thing for me. I kind of grew up with that. And 'Twilight Zone' is one of my all-time favorite shows. In fact me and Sam Witwer from 'Being Human' sit down and have marathons to...
I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.
All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.
When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and then went on to adult books. When I was 12 or 13, I read all of Steinbeck and Hemingway....
I would only tell a story if I was being mercilessly heckled. That's the only time I would talk to the audience.
I've always tried to walk a line between being incisive and acerbic, but not mean. Sometimes I'm going to tip over the line a little bit, but that's usually a line I try not to cross.
I had vied for a championship; I had been involved in being a No. 1 contender, and having runs where I got close but I never got there. Being able to finally get there and be the guy to carry...
I don't have a problem being on 'MTV,' and I don't have a problem being on the radio. I actually like it. So there. And anyone that calls me a sell out is just jealous.
I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.
I do feel I'm being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with 'Mortal Kombat.'
Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.
Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my...
