Become Quotes

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

For me to become the highest paid player in the franchise, it was something I didn't anticipate. But I'm glad. I like playing for Cincinnati.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

The live concert industry has become corporate-ized.

Sex and the City changed New York-New York's become a big shoe store now, unfortunately.

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much.

Keeping our kids engaged and in school must become a national priority.

Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.

We can't allow domestic violence to become a campaign issue.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

I don't want to become known as just a body.

Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals.

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.