Being Quotes · Page 248

I ended up being exposed to cinema that a lot of other kids wouldn't have been exposed to.

— Lee Unkrich

I am constantly disappointing people up in Scotland by not being Scottish!

— Jonny Lee Miller

I'd be the first to say that I'm a distant individual. I have a tendency to come across as being aloof and…

— Robert Parish

It's just that fun atmosphere, working on the car, being with the guys. This is exactly what I needed.

— Kurt Busch

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

— Henry Cavill

I'm not the typical dress size - being a model just isn't how I think of myself.

— Josephine de La Baume

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

— Margaret Drabble

It's a strange environment, being hounded. The paparazzi are cretins.

— Jamie Dornan

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way…

— Aubrey Plaza

My grandparents would never admit to being Tasmanian, but I think it's really great and funny. But I guess, in the past,…

— Jessie Cave

Initially, I was like, 'I can handle anything. What's the big deal about being a mother?' I was not prepared for the…

— Sonali Bendre

Even when I was training alone, just me and one of United's fitness coaches, I loved going onto the field, doing sprints,…

— Bastian Schweinsteiger

My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a…

— Harold Ford, Jr

Being the Bachelorette holds a lot of pressure, especially on this first night since I was making my decision solely based on…

— Becca Kufrin

It's always good to be out there with your teammates, working with your teammates in individual drills, team drills, just being out…

— Rob Gronkowski

We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life…

— Janine Shepherd

Being a health freak, Sangram has made me a lot healthier and fitter, as he has turned me into a vegan and…

— Payal Rohatgi

Just being there at the Olympics, you kind of just take in every single moment.

— McKayla Maroney

I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly - being thin was in my genes.

— Twiggy

There is something about being on stage that's a release for me. It gets my mental energy out.

— Keith Flint

Where I am from, being able to play in the Champions League is an achievement in itself.

— Demba Ba

Being in a band is very much like a startup. You start in a garage. You hope to get interest from investors,…

— Kevin Jonas

I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.

— Gal Gadot

I've never really thought of my real life - you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at…

— Neneh Cherry

'Silicon Valley' likes being satirized. They've all been waiting for someone to come along and make fun of it.

— Daniel Lyons

Being a teenager anyway is incredibly intense and every moment is invested with ferocious importance.

— Ol Parker

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

— Tom Stoppard

After being at Vogue' for two years in PR, I decided to bring all events in-house. That's how I became the director…

— Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

Ziggler is one of those guys who don't get all of the credit he deserves for being so good consistently for so…

— Dean Ambrose

I dreamed of being like Kaka, and Brazil was the home of that creative style, which the Brazilians call ginga.

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan

I don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people.

— Lea Thompson

My parents have been married multiple times each, so the idea of being committed to somebody was scary.

— Jenny Mollen

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your…

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

I like being able to go to the grocery store and know that nobody knows what I do or who I am.

— Russi Taylor

It makes me really anxious. Being seen. Which sounds nuts, because I'm an actor.

— Greta Lee

Comedy thrives on immediacy and I got fed up waiting months to find out if a radio sketch show was being commissioned.

— Richard Herring

Work aside, I think would have ended up in the U.S. because I like being here a lot. I really do.

— Raza Jaffrey

I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it…

— Peter Jackson

Every preseason, I feel I've done well, and it's just about being given a chance.

— Victor Moses

The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful,…

— Stellan Skarsgard