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.
Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.
I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.
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As a 27-year-old, I'm like, 'everything is hard for me. Being young is so difficult.'
Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.
I see a film or a TV series or a play as being this machine. It sounds quite robotic, in its description, but it's basically a machine and you're just one of the cogs that goes in it. You're not...
I was in high school, and I wasn't much of an outgoing kid. I really pushed myself to break out of that mold and decided to audition for a play. I ended up getting a supporting part in the play,...
The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract...
If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.
The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.
I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.
I could see myself being on a TV show, but I think touring is something I'll always do.
I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.
Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.
