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.
If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.
The more you know about somebody's back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices resonate full-body instead of just being quick, quippy one-liners that are just like a bunch of people trying...
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Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.
I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.
I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.
I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.
There's nothing wrong with being a capitalistic society, but it's taken the place of faith.
I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace.
I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didn't know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that 'beyond' became internalized in our psyche.
I think, as a young guy, I was always drawn to being in wild places. Climbing was a logical extension of that.
But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.
It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital...
Creating content, creating art, material, being a job creator - it's all very, very important. Very important.
What America was built on was being able to say, 'Hey, we're going to come in and use our resources to build for ourselves and our communities and build around that. We're not going to depend on others.'
I started out as being a diva in a golden dress and now to a more bearded drag artist guy in boots.
It's just unbelievable that nearly every gay human being knows who I am now - that's overwhelming.
Being a teenager in a small Austrian village was not fabulous. I tried to fit in and changed myself to be part of the game. I now realise I can create the game.
When I'm standing in front of all those lawmakers in the European Parliament, then I'm a speaker, when I'm singing, I'm a singer. If I'm on the catwalk, then I'm being a model. That can all happen in one week...
