Being Quotes

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.