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 learned that having great sensitivity is important. But being strong is just as important.
When I was young, I dreamt of being a starlet in Hollywood. But there comes a point in every African American's life when you realize the limitations, that you could only play maids or some little supporting role. Even Lena...
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I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes.
I went through a lot of my life not being mindful of how I was living it. I wasn't mindful environmentally, or whether I was on track.
We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There's something terribly brittle about it.
When it comes to being a responsible steward of the economy, Congress needs to either lead by promoting a pro-growth economic agenda - or, better yet, get the heck out of the way.
A-Frame became an expression of creating a place where everyone would feel comfortable, even if you were made to feel uncomfortable in restaurants before. It's a place where I explored my own insecurities as far as being mistreated in restaurants...
Sure, I had dreams of being a star when I was 18. I could've pushed it, too, but it wouldn't have happened any sooner. I'm lucky. What's happened has happened in spite of me.
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.
There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Being a growing entertainer, period, you're going to always have struggles. I'm still trying to learn how to even perform right onstage.
It was when I came back from Leeds that things started to change. I went from being a kid to having to man up and going into a man's game.
Awards shows are being pushed to shed their genteel limousine liberalism and embrace the race-gender-sexual identity agenda in full.
Cultural arenas and institutions that were always liberal are being prodded or dragged further to the left.
As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.
There's something to be said for being given a tremendous amount of freedom as an actor.
