Been Quotes

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old.

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

I've been to North Africa many times.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

I have always been too round to do fashion shows.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it's a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side.

I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.