Being Quotes · Page 255

Just being alive, staying human, I think that's infinitely precious.

— Vanessa Redgrave

I got so big in the Latin market, it was a bit like being Elvis Presley. The limousines, the screaming girls -…

— Jose Feliciano

Me being able to move around, nickel, dime, safety, you don't know where I'm coming from or if I'm coming, and that's…

— Charles Woodson

When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

— Jimmy Smits

Quite often in comic book movies, very good actresses are relegated to being the girlfriend or the helper or the sidekick or…

— Paul Dini

I learned that having great sensitivity is important. But being strong is just as important.

— Ruby Dee

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

— Gemma Chan

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

— Kip Thorne

The early days of being vegetarian meant ordering plain salads with vinaigrette and a baked potato. You could put the potato in…

— Maggie Baird

When I was in my teens, I thought, 'Would I like to try and work hard at being an actor, or do…

— Emilia Clarke

Learning how to and being expected to know how to fly an international partner vehicle is quite something, especially having to do…

— Shannon Walker

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being…

— Kim Gordon

I don't want to be sitting in the gym by myself doing rehab. I want to be outside doing what I love…

— Andy Carroll

Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those kids who wanted to do…

— Matt Bomer

I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes…

— Brian McKnight

Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher,…

— Timothy Noah

How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?

— Anne Hutchinson

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

— Jhonen Vasquez

I want to have a bank account that represents me being a pro athlete.

— Aljamain Sterling

If you're not getting the job done or playing well or being successful, they'll eventually replace you and find somebody else that…

— Blake Bortles

It's important for me that I'm able to walk around the city without being bothered all the time.

— Franck Ribery

To me, being in fashion is about your work, not about facilitating a lifestyle.

— Zac Posen

I hated being Gareth Thomas. I hated the man I looked at in the mirror.

— Gareth Thomas

Some days I really love being a mom, and some days I don't! It's crazy - I'm tired of packing lunches!

— Michelle Monaghan

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

— Lucy Hawking

As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.

— Emun Elliott

Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.

— Mark Cuban

Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.

— Noam Chomsky

Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way.

— Alan Menken

I like being versatile and perhaps that's what pushes me as an actor.

— Pranitha Subhash

Being the hero doesn't bother me, but being part of a successful team does bother me.

— Adam Lallana

Being out of work is very depressing. But luckily I haven't been there for a long time.

— Prunella Scales

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with…

— Dolly Parton

I can't be part of what is being done in films these days and hence I don't do films anymore.

— Jaya Bachchan

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her…

— Helene D. Gayle

I surfed until I was 18, and being the athlete that I am, I got really frustrated with how I wasn't really…

— Brett Young

I remember being mesmerized by 'Love in the Afternoon,' with Gary Cooper.

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

Being the first-ever non-Korean artist at YG, it feels as if I have much more responsibility.

— Lisa

Being an actor, the less people know about my personal life, the more open-minded they can be about each role I play.

— Sean Hayes

To go from not being known to being stopped in the street is really odd.

— Alex Brooker