Being Quotes

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

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

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

I never thought about being famous.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.