Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.
‐‐ Jacqueline Bisset
Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach
Being as it was one of my dreams to sing with one of the world's greatest groups, for me to join 'The Temptations' was a great blessing.
‐‐ Ali-Ollie Woodson
Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show gig. One has to be open enough in other areas to be able to contribute to a show like this.
‐‐ Kevin Eubanks
Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person.
‐‐ Lucy Liu
Being Asian where you're supposed to be more quiet and softer and I was always getting reprimanded for laughing to loud or speaking to loudly.
‐‐ Kelly Hu
Being asked to describe what 'post-racial' means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we know what is meant, but, if we are willing to be honest, we also know that none of the four describe something real, something tangible, something true.
‐‐ Tim Wise
Being asked to play one of the butlers is like being picked to play for England. All you have to do is think of the great butlers from the past - Terry-Thomas in 'How To Murder Your Wife,' John Gielgud in 'Arthur' and Denholm Elliott in 'Trading Places.'
‐‐ Mark Williams
Being asked to play 'The Doctor' is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I can't wait to get started.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi
Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.
‐‐ Ingrid Newkirk
Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland
Being at a club that supported me meant a lot.
‐‐ David Beckham
Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in a cocoon. You had your own life; world events happened elsewhere.
‐‐ James Lovegrove
Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.
‐‐ Daryl Hall
Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
‐‐ Eckhart Tolle
Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.
‐‐ Stefon Harris
Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change.
‐‐ James Hansen
Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
‐‐ Sally Pearson
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis
Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.
‐‐ Chris O'Dowd
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
‐‐ Robert Bork
Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.
‐‐ Charlie Hunnam
Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.
‐‐ Kelly Reilly
Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.
‐‐ Rick Mercer
Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.
‐‐ Hugh Hefner
Being attracted to someone plays a big part, but there's also so much more than that for me. It's about finding someone sweet and kind - and that has a servant's heart.
‐‐ Tim Tebow
Being attractive and being credible can and do go together.
‐‐ Lisa Guerrero
Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
‐‐ Ioan Gruffudd
Being Australian, I'm probably more used to sunshine and the beach. I've never been skiing, and I think I was already in my 20s when I saw snow for the first time.
‐‐ Georgina Haig
Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
‐‐ Edgar Meyer
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
‐‐ Seth Godin
Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.
‐‐ Greg Norman
Being away from her is torturous and I'd much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job real well and fast.
‐‐ Richard Dean Anderson
Being away from home was tough, but the challenge and the thrill of being on Broadway was so fulfilling, and I'm thankful to my husband for making it possible and holding it down at home.
‐‐ Nicole Ari Parker
Being away from the game took a toll on my heart.
‐‐ Stefon Diggs
Being away from the game you love so much, it will mess with your mind.
‐‐ Stefon Diggs
Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.
‐‐ Graham Moore
Being bald is no fun.
‐‐ Maura Tierney
Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.
‐‐ Juliette Lewis
Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.
‐‐ Lady Gaga
Being beautiful isn't everything... Sometimes it's interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.
‐‐ FKA twigs
Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.
‐‐ Joshua Leonard
Being behind the camera is where I feel comfortable. I've found something that I feel I, as 'Michael,' can be as confident in as 'Johnny' was on the stage. It's great being part of the creative process. You're right at the start of an idea, and you get to see it all the way through till the end.
‐‐ Johnny Vegas
Being behind the lens gives me a completely different perspective, and because of my blog, I get to do projects and attend shows lending me another angle.
‐‐ Hanneli Mustaparta
Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.
‐‐ Johann Georg Hamann
Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
‐‐ Damien Hirst
Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.
‐‐ Shania Twain
Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
‐‐ Robert Wyatt