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.
Whatever any boxer does in the ring, I don't think any reporter should call him a coward. Anyone who does that I lose complete respect for. There's a difference between being a coward and being scared, or apprehensive. Different fighters...
To me, being heavyweight world champion and Olympic sprint champion are the two greatest prizes in sport.
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I quite like being mobbed. After all, it is extremely nice to be recognised. That's what acting is all about - being recognised.
As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners, that we can't be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that...
The podcast 'Note to Self' is 'the tech show about being human'. Human notions of privacy have changed.
I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like.
It's really wonderful that it's the whole franchise being recognized and it's a collective award. Each film has anywhere between 2,000 and 6,000 people working on it and so really the award is for each and every one of us....
But I can't imagine Harry being a stockbroker at 35. That doesn't really seem the stuff of 'Harry Potter'.
Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
There are countless fantastic actors out there who are being denied the opportunity to play Broadway because they're not a name, and I think that's kind of wrong.
We've yet to deal with the uncomfortable history of England being involved in the transatlantic slave trade, whereas America has at least made some movies dealing with its racial history.
In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too.
One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one's version matches up 100% with other people's, even if it's three or four people on a...
I don’t like the idea of being chucked out of parliament, chucked out of the party, for basically doing the bleeding obvious: trying to stop an absolutely damaging policy, that a responsible political party should be opposing vigorously.
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!
I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.
As much as I miss the work, I don't miss NBC. I don't miss being there. It was just the wrong atmosphere for me.
