Being Quotes · Page 268

There's nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

— Kevin Spacey

You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can…

— Bill Hader

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

— Cynthia Ozick

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world's countries, being…

— Vladimir Putin

The hardest part of performing in the Premier League is the mental side of it, with everything being scrutinised.

— Troy Deeney

Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!

— Cecile Richards

Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

— Barbara Block

I haven't been able to write a song about flying. It just sounds cheesy. But for me, there's nothing like being up…

— Dexter Holland

I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just…

— James Woods

Regardless of where I start or wherever I may be playing, it doesn't matter, because you still have to do that to…

— Max Fried

It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms…

— Richard Prince

I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost…

— Ben Huh

Honestly, I want to live a calm life without being in the press. I want to be like any other American citizen…

— George Zimmerman

People can believe me if they want to believe me, but I know the majority probably won't because they probably overlook eight-man…

— Leighton Vander Esch

When I was young and less wise, I thought that being a feminist meant being independent. It meant not sacrificing your needs…

— Emily V. Gordon

I'd never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees' sound. I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am…

— Robin Gibb

I come from that side - passion, emotion, motivation and being driven.

— Antonio Rudiger

Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.

— Mark Teixeira

Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.

— Constance Wu

There's no stopping same-sex dancing couples. I don't understand how people being happy can affect others so much - just let them…

— Motsi Mabuse

The 4-year-old me was getting laughed in school at for being too dark.

— Saint Jhn

You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.

— Candis Cayne

I am terrified of being misjudged by thousands of faceless Twitterers.

— Lucy Punch

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.

— Beth Broderick

I plan on being an All Star one day and that's what I'm set to work out to be.

— Tyler Herro

Sometimes being trapped with my thoughts can be more painful than any injury I've suffered in the ring.

— Jimmy Snuka

It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.

— Astrid Kirchherr

It's one of the worst things in our profession, being on the bench. The only worse thing is being injured.

— Matt Doherty

I know being an open, honest, outspoken person gets me into trouble all the time, but I don't know how to be…

— Helen Skelton

Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to…

— Srikumar Rao

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

— Saskia de Brauw

I've never been a thin girl. I grew up being - I don't want to say a plus-size girl, but a girl…

— Lindsay Mendez

One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how…

— Denise Di Novi

In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.

— Bethenny Frankel

After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

— Valentina Tereshkova

When we're in the studio, and we sing that first note on that record, you're committing to being a Backstreet Boy!

— Brian Littrell

I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'

— Laura Benanti

It's been great to travel because I really enjoyed being 'Elektra', so it's not a problem talking about it.

— Elodie Yung

There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers.

— Clive Barker

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

— John Benjamin Hickey