Being Quotes · Page 331

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity…

— Steve Largent

I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.

— Peter Capaldi

I was conscious of being a British actor doing a ridiculous Brooklyn voice, so I toned it down.

— Harris Dickinson

I still want to have the reputation of kind of being a quiet hardworking type of guy.

— Duncan Robinson

I have much to be grateful for at Bayern, and I feel super comfortable. I can't imagine being at another club.

— Jerome Boateng

We read at school about celestial bodies being up in the heavens and forget that we ourselves are living on a corpo…

— Alice Rohrwacher

I grew up really being a comic book geek, and that was a really big part of my childhood.

— Rob Van Dam

I went through a lot of my life not being mindful of how I was living it. I wasn't mindful environmentally, or…

— Roz Savage

You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are…

— Andrew O'Hagan

There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the…

— Noah Baumbach

There are the movies that should never be made and resist being made until, through sheer brute force, somebody finally makes it.…

— Craig Mazin

To be honest, I had taken time to discover my calling and did different things like being an assistant director, a photographer…

— Akshara Haasan

One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries…

— Richard Rohr

In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage…

— Gail Sheehy

I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves…

— Colin Egglesfield

Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go…

— Ben Barnes

When I was writing 'House Of Suns,' there were a few writers I had in mind as role models, the main being…

— Alastair Reynolds

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

— Joyce Giraud

I like cycling and swimming and walking everywhere. I'm not going to the gym. I like being outside rather than inside a…

— Anna Ewers

I have proved I have more than linear speed. Track guys are known for not being able to catch, for not having…

— Marquise Goodwin

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel…

— Chris Martin

I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.

— Brendan Dooling

Being calm is, for me as a player, really important, because you can see things a little bit better and a little…

— Jannik Sinner

I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote…

— Clive Barker

When I grew up, being a nerd was a bad thing. You didn't want to be one. Now everybody calls themselves that.

— Jimmy Dore

There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.

— Adam Driver

If I'm being interviewed by a reporter, I take my time to answer the question.

— Bobby Wagner

I think 'BoJack' is definitely very much about kind of the burdens of being comfortable.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

It's great fun being an academic because you have a certain licence to be a bit of a joker.

— Mary Beard

I think that being a housewife is the most noble profession there is.

— Gavin McInnes

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

— Madonna Ciccone

Being a backup singer means being able to sing on a dime. Music is oozing out of their every pore.

— Morgan Neville

Growing up and being bullied, it's not a sad story for me. It's defined me and what made me so strong.

— Liz Cambage

Women would all be better off if we realized we didn't have to choose between being an intelligent being and a sexual…

— Christie Hefner

I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

— Nicole Trunfio

I go to the Himalayas after every film. I go alone. I go to the interiors, to the villages. Being there itself…

— Rajinikanth

It's no good being too wired; you've got to be awake and alert, without being overanxious.

— Cathy Newman

I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.

— Phil Spector

When we started off, we weren't even thinking of being a global band. We just ended up becoming that.

— Steve Harris

On the surface, being a musician can look pretty glamorous. But so much work goes into it.

— Sid Sriram