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.
I started to hate fame, I didn't want to go out, because I didn't want to be recognised for what I was being recognised for.
It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs...
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I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.
I love just being an actor. I love writing, but I'm not a writer. I have no aspirations to direct.
When you're doing well and you're successful, part of being successful is that you get interviewed. But it ruins the moment.
It's so hard to tell people I'm in a video game... just because I grew up with my dad being in a video game.
The reason I don't do the Flair Flop anymore is because women's wrestling is being taken so seriously. I'll only perform something comedic like that at a house show.
I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.
There's a tendency in this Hollywood machinery to take on too much. You end up not being able to give everything you want.
Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.
In terms of 'The Discovery' being a Netflix Original, they actually came on once we had already started shooting.
I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them...
I would be a giraffe because I just want to experience what a sore throat and being a giraffe feels like. It would be really uncomfortable walking around in the Sahara and being like, 'I really need, like, 15 lozenges...
I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.
I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.
