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.
I've written about superheroes. I've written about talking ferrets and math geniuses being chased by madmen. I've written about spies and demon-hunting soccer moms. I've created an entire world that centers around a paranormal judicial system.
If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.
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I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.
A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'
It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.
I think the physicality of being an athlete or working out, it grounds you. It centers you.
Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as we got older, I developed a real appreciation of the importance of being involved in the democratic process.
I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away,...
It would be a really great to do a Marvel film - not even playing a superhero: just being part of that universe would be amazing.
To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a...
Performing has always been something I wanted to do. My dad had a video camera and I loved being in front of it.
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.
I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.
