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.
For me, I've got no interest in being a celebrity, and I have no interest in doing photographs, going to this party or that.
Just because I like being healthy doesn't mean I can't have fun - I don't drink excessively, but I'll have a couple of vodka-and-sodas.
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I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself.
Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.
I was really heavy growing up, so it was never feeling like the pretty girl, never being popular.
I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being.
I feel eager to learn as much as I can, not only about my craft but the world and the cosmos and how we got here and whether there's any purpose to our being here.
I can say I have forgiven my captors. That being said, I never want to see them again. I'm not OK with they did to me.
I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.
I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.
I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.
I'm actually quite good at being friends with my exes. I'm friends with almost everyone. In fact, everyone! So I let them burn to a certain degree, and then I put out the fire for a while.
I wanted to show people that I don't just make love songs that are about purely being in love.
It was such a culture shock for me, being plucked from this diverse neighborhood in London into Jamaica Queens. I'm in this new environment, and I had an English accent.
Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.
I think being a mom changed me, and now it's not just about what I want to do and what's sort of interesting, but what I absolutely have to do.
In some ways, I missed my era because I'm big and messy and have big feelings and take up space on a stage rather than being diminutive and childlike in my woman-ness.
