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'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.
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I remember being a student, and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.
For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.
Being the youngest of 12, I always had to wait my turn in line to play my records.
We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid...
I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is...
When I first moved to Hollywood from Silicon Valley, I had some misgivings. But I found that there were some advantages to being in Hollywood. And, in fact, some advantages to owning your own media company. And I also found...
I think I have femininity, I have masculinity, but I get to use all of Jeffrey, and that's very powerful. And this is what I always thought when I went down in my little basement in San Francisco, where I...
I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.
There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.
We are seeing people of faith being attacked, discriminated against, and losing their jobs because they are speaking out on the marriage issue.
When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by...
How many thousands of lives would be saved if we enforced our immigration laws, our guns laws, and our drug laws? Public safety is not being held hostage by the 'gun lobby,' but by the open borders lobby and the...
I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.
There are a lot of human-created systems that we like to tout as being logical that are actually riddled with illogic. And then, on the other hand, we have all these natural systems that are not conscious, but they are...
I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a...
If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession.
