Being Quotes

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

I think we're in a time when everyone's afraid to have sex. But I was raised being beautiful and healthy.

Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.