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 like incremental improvements or at least seeing where you're going to go and really being able to understand what's feasible at the time.
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I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.
I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term.
Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
The stressful thing about being an actor is, like, you have to kind of audition again and again and again, you know? You go in one time, and you go in again for a director and then again for producers...
Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.
Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.
My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?
I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.
I worked with Dalton Trumbo, who served time for refusing to give up names of people that were accused of being Communists. I've always admired him.
I definitely love to work, and I'm loving being a mommy, so I'd like to try to balance both.
I knew I'd love being a mom, but it's so much cooler than I even thought it would be.
My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.
I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.
I don't think that I'm a lone voice. I'm not even interested in being a lone voice.
Being a rather second-rate actress, I finally thought, 'I'd rather be a designer.' I knew I could make things look good.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
I'm a total goof. When I'm being really comfortable with my friends, I can be very goofy.
I don't want to just fall back on the fact that I was on the cover of 'GQ' for being an actor.
