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 any actor, being part of a Mani Ratnam film is a great experience. I grew up watching his films.
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What I feel most strongly here being in Congress is kind of the burden - the good burden - of representing all of our military.
I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.
I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right.
I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort.
I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.
I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it.
I did the whole struggling actor thing and lucked into being in the right place at the right time and getting involved in the first 'High School Musical.'
Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.
Some of my contemporaries don't want to talk about the female problem because they feel like whenever they get a teaching position or an award, we are just being pinpointed, fitting into the model.
I still take a lot of pride in being able to write my own songs. My story's coming from me.
I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?
Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with.
Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but by being related to him, I had it in my head that I had to like...
That's the thing about Lionsgate. They are fearless. No other studio would have made 'Hunger Games' the way they did. They're being fearless in the way they make decisions, and it's paying off for them.
When you're relaxed, the crowd can see it. They can feel it. They can tell when you're being real, or they can tell when you're forcing it.
