Having Quotes

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that.

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.

I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21.

People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

Having gone through all of this, I feel in some ways calmer now. It's strange, but sad. I think I'll always be sad.

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

The party now is having my kids laugh and my wife laugh and my teammates. I want them to see me have fun and put it in a different way.

I'm having a lot of fun, enjoying my life and trying to raise my children.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

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

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

There must be more to life than having everything.