Being Quotes · Page 345

Not wishing to blow my own trumpet, I'm as near to being the perfect dog owner as it is possible to be.

— Mark Barrowcliffe

Without wishing to sound pretentious, my basic standard of happiness is to do with being who I am.

— David Baddiel

I've never been a big fan of gossip. Being a victim of it, I knew how much it hurt.

— Blake Lively

One of the blessings of my childhood was being a fighter and a scrapper, but being a fighter and a scrapper is…

— Jeannette Walls

I love just lying on the floor at home watching games with my dad. No pressures, just being me.

— David Keith

I've been married 23 years now. Gone from spending all of my time on the road to being a husband and father.

— Shawn Kemp

Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician.

— Trombone Shorty

It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.

— Madeleine Stowe

For breakfast, I usually have a slice of bread with some homemade jam made from fruit from the garden; the type of…

— Dries van Noten

A human being at rest runs on 90 watts. That's how much power you need just to lie down. And if you're…

— Geoffrey West

I grew up being called Eamonn-Martin-Dermott-Declan because I was the youngest of the boys and Mum would go through all their names…

— Declan Donnelly

My only non-acting job was being a barista at Coffee Bean. While I was in college, and I had a blast! I…

— Troian Bellisario

I have been accused of so many things that are so untrue. Some of those accusations persist despite their being entirely false,…

— Paula White

I've always been a Dracula/vampire aficionado, being half-Romanian myself. Dracula has always been close to my heart - in fact, I have…

— Ray Wise

'Southcliffe' is extremely dark. It's an extremely depressing, intense story, but the shoot was like being at Disneyland. It was unbelievably different…

— Kaya Scodelario

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would…

— Cass McCombs

I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.

— Paul McCartney

Express your love often and make your man feel appreciated for more than just being a provider and a companion.

— Suhasini Mulay

Being happy is a beauty. It's not about having the perfect face or perfect make-up.

— Emily Atack

I have found where I am best, and that is being a fact-checker and being fearless.

— Katy Tur

Reese Witherspoon made me better. Just working with her, being with her, I learned so much. I want to be like her.

— Kathryn Newton

I really always wanted to be an actor, I guess, but I did enjoy being a disc jockey here in Los Angeles.

— Bob Crane

“If you can't be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie?”

— Bryant McGill

Come on, planning a wedding, let's be honest, it's not fun. It's not fun being in a wedding.

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

I never wanted to be famous; that was not my dream. I just like being creative.

— Shenaz Treasury

My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.

— Boy George

I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them…

— Noel Gallagher

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

— Charles Kuralt

The fact that I can raise my leg vertically is entirely down to being naturally flexible. It's not dancing.

— Angela Rippon

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

— Amy Winehouse

I can't imagine being a girl out there on the road. We can throw a hat on and stink. Girls have to…

— Matthew Ramsey

I would say a lot of us here think being called a geek is cool. A lot of us at Blizzard identify…

— Michael Morhaime

For me, I do my best work when I feel completely relaxed and not being judged.

— Hong Chau

Anthony Mackie is better at being Sam Wilson than I am. So I embrace his ideas.

— Kari Skogland

Just being able to be around your kid, I don't think anything can beat that.

— Terry Rozier

Being a Mormon is not a part-time religion. It is your life. You eat, sleep, and breathe Mormonism.

— Dan Reynolds

I'm not after having the lead or being in a blockbuster Hollywood film. I'm after reading the material and loving it. That's…

— Sofia Boutella

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

— C. C. H. Pounder

Being with Winona Ryder, she's so good at what she does that she makes my job easier.

— Noah Schnapp

America under Trump has gone from being a world leader to an object of derision.

— Joseph Stiglitz