Being Quotes · Page 319

That makes me very happy as a human being to know what I'm doing is an inspiration to people.

— Fantastic Negrito

Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades.

— Trombone Shorty

If you look at my resume, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

My family is vital to me - just the sense of being surrounded by no pretension.

— Mira Nair

I exercise, and I eat reasonably, and I don't want to look at myself being out of shape. That would depress me.

— Judy Sheindlin

Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about…

— Don Lemon

I think you judge your career by the scripts that are being sent your way.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

For me, being professional is being at the top level in both my personal life and professional life.

— Rui Patricio

During war time, when people were injured, I was really frustrated I did not become a doctor. It's painful not being able…

— Janine di Giovanni

New vaccines are being developed all the time, which could save many more lives and dramatically improve people's health. And this goes…

— Seth Berkley

No, there isn't a particular type of genre that I'm drawn to. I'm more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters,…

— Freddy Rodriguez

I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that,…

— Gordon Lightfoot

People have always asked me why I'm drawn to material about kids, and for me, it's - I remember being at that…

— Ned Vizzini

I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's 'girlfriend' was never what…

— Adrienne Bailon

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It…

— Mira Sorvino

The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if it's the classic Hitchcock shot of…

— Richard Ayoade

I can always play at the top level. It's just about my head being right.

— Bernard Tomic

The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices…

— Bertie Carvel

If you're famous for being famous, that's usually a four-year career.

— Rocky Carroll

With archery, if you have good gear, you can't blame being bad on anyone but yourself.

— Brad Leone

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

— Katherine Paterson

I get so many people coming up to me being like, Aahhh! And I'm like, what the hell? I'm just me!

— Jorja Smith

With writing, timing is everything. Being in the right place at the right time.

— John Ridley

We naturally are getting older and one of the beauties about being in a band is it keeps you feeling young.

— Tom Fletcher

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

— Alec Baldwin

Most 14-year-olds aren't in a room with adults being like, 'So, what's your brand?'

— Olivia Rodrigo

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

— Richard Herring

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

— Greta Lee

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

— Russi Taylor

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

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

— Jenny Mollen

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

— Lea Thompson

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

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

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

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Ol Parker

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

— Daniel Lyons

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

— Neneh Cherry

The Lib-Dems are sidekicks. They were born to be sidekicks and that's what they should concentrate on being.

— A. A. Gill