Being Quotes

To all the girls out there who think being funny is not sexy, you are wrong!

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

Being alone is very difficult.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.

Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.