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.
Runners are the lowest of the low in film units. They're paid very, very minimal wages - probably below the national average. And runners are now being asked to drive actors about, as well as their runner duties. It's kind...
You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'Stop shouting,' 'Stop jumping around on the furniture.' But 'Stop showing off'? That's awful.
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
My quilting is dookie. All needlepoint-related things I should do better on, being honest.
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap.
I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.
My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.
When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.
