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 couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.
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I take enormous pleasure in seeing artists go out and sing my songs, or being in the corner of a festival, and everyone's singing along, and no one knows that you've written it.
Traveling the world was a constant thing, rich with experiences. But all of it was relative to being able to play live onstage and really stretch out.
I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one.
At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say...
I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.
Being in the D-League, I might be able to get into a rhythm and start shooting the ball well and get some confidence and get some reps.
When folks are in desperate times - say, like being stuck in the middle of a long-running interplanetary war - they grasp onto anything that might keep them afloat.
It's nice to see my work recognized as being worth something beyond the printed page, and it was very cool seeing Thanos up on the big screen.
Being an artist, you soak up imagery, and you put it back out in whatever form you do your own imagery.
There's a character, Eon, I did back in the 'Captain Marvel' story. Eon came from a greasy smudge on a paper bag inside my kitchen being used for garbage. I went and got a paper and pencil, drew it up,...
I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.
Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you.
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'
To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.
