Being Quotes

I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.