Being Quotes

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married.

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Is being an idiot like being high all the time?

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.