Being Quotes

I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being.

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

Government has the power to help improve well-being

I'm about being the best.

I didn't really feel I was being hurt, but you could feel it.

You have to stay true to yourself and where youre coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

I want to be better at being single, and I want to be better at feeling okay about being single. I don't need a boyfriend.

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

I had a fear of being alone.

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

Being mean about other people isn't on my radar.

Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or see.

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

Being sexy is kind of funny to me.

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Being in love with somebody is a wonderful feeling.

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.

I think the best partner you can have is someone who makes you want to be the best form of yourself.

Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

Let's commit ourselves to being true disciples of Jesus Christ. Not mere fair-weather followers, but disciples.

My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

I'd rather be honest and lose than be dishonest and win

Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.

Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.