Being Quotes

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.

I just liked the feeling of being on stage.

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living.

I'm re-energized by being around people who mean a lot to me.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.