Being Quotes

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

Being is the great explainer.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Being offended is part of being in the real world.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

I think the best thing about being pregnant would definitely have to be seeing just my belly grow and seeing, like, wow, there is, you know, something inside of me.

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.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.