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 remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being...
I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It...
I'm pretty good with being calculated in what I do, when I'm going to make my mark on somebody.
There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.
I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the word 'curvy' or 'plus-size' because there are women who identify as that, and I'm not offended by it whatsoever because I don't feel like being bigger is anything wrong.
Looking at magazines and being someone who wanted to act, as a kid, I was very much influenced by things I saw.
Most women who go public with #MeToo stories are fearful for obvious reasons. There is the pain of reliving traumatic experiences. There is the rage of not being believed.
I am used to being politically homeless, which I think is a very, very Jewish position.
When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
It changed my life, being in 'Company.' I didn't think I was going to be an actress.
