All Quotes

Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it's not healthy.
‐‐ Geri Halliwell

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
‐‐ Christie Hefner

Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.
‐‐ Sophie Okonedo

Being a chef would be too much hard work.
‐‐ Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it.
‐‐ Cheech Marin

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.
‐‐ Danny Bonaduce

Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father's Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.
‐‐ Art Alexakis

Being a Christian has not and does not come naturally or easy for me. I take that to be a good thing because I am sure that to be a Christian requires training that lasts a lifetime.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom.
‐‐ Kenneth R. Miller

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
‐‐ Billy Graham

Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'
‐‐ Manny Pacquiao

Being a club pro and all, a guy trying to keep up with golf's modern technology, I hadn't found much time for Internet dating, but then one day I knew I'd met the girl of my dreams when she replied to a comment I'd made on You-and-Me.com. She said, 'I love it when you talk equipment to me.'
‐‐ Dan Jenkins

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.
‐‐ Bill Burr

Being a comedian, people tell me stuff they shouldn't tell their therapist.
‐‐ Jeff Foxworthy

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.
‐‐ Michael Patrick King

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.
‐‐ Amy Cuddy

Being a competitive dancer is an expensive business - you have to buy the £2,000 or so tail suit and the shoes, and then get yourself around the world to the competitions. And there is not a lot of money to be made in competing.
‐‐ Anton du Beke

Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel whether I'm in Asia on a business trip or in New York City and have to get up in 2 hours.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.
‐‐ Michael Tilson Thomas

Being a conglomerate, each of our businesses has a different challenge; business landscape is different for each business. It makes it challenging as well as exciting.
‐‐ Kumar Mangalam Birla

Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.
‐‐ Pat Sajak

Being a conservative union member is almost like being an actor in Hollywood: You don't dare say it, or you might be injured on the job, or you might be laid off, or your family might have something happen to them.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

Being a consultant is like flying first-class. The food is terrific, the drinks are cold. But all you can do is walk up to the pilot and say, 'bank left.' If you're in management, you have the controls.
‐‐ Greg Brenneman

Being a cook doesn't necessarily mean you are a competitor.
‐‐ Joe Bastianich

Being a correspondent on 'The Daily Show' is some combination of doing a character and doing stand-up. It's a juggling act to find a balance between being you and playing a role.
‐‐ Kristen Schaal

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
‐‐ Sebastian Bach

Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time.
‐‐ Flea

Being a dad is the best thing that ever happened to me. It changed my life entirely.
‐‐ Jake Busey

Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.
‐‐ Rita Rudner

Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.
‐‐ Sebastian Horsley

Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.
‐‐ Bryan Cranston

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
‐‐ Daley Thompson

Being a decorator allowed me to see what about people's environments made them happy. And what things they could do to have more light and color and joy in their daily lives.
‐‐ Alexandra Stoddard

Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.
‐‐ Pete Hegseth

Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn't a them/us issue; we are all on the scale somewhere. So we must be very careful to resist ignorance and combat the stigma that leads to dangerous silence.
‐‐ Matt Haig

Being a developmental psychologist didn't make me any better at dealing with my own children, no. I muddled through, and, believe me, fretted and worried with the best of them.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore.
‐‐ Mark Ronson

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.
‐‐ Paddy Considine

Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every way. You have to work with actors, you have to be involved with the producers and the writing and the action. Every department comes to you; you have to deal with everything.
‐‐ Agnes Bruckner

Being a director or a conductor is a balance of many things. And to do it right is a very difficult tightrope to walk. I've come to the conclusion that there's really no way to be one hundred percent popular as conductor.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

Being a director, whether you're in rehearsal or you're in auditions or you're in a creative meeting, is so much to me about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping.
‐‐ Diane Paulus

Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.
‐‐ Gary Numan

Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.
‐‐ Jonathan Miller

Being a doctor, lawyer in war-torn countries isn't easy when the infrastructure isn't there. The money, the food and education is not always accessible to achieve those dreams.
‐‐ Brandon Stanton

Being a drummer, I'm always like, 'Oh, that's got a funky beat. That's cool,' and I like to dance.
‐‐ Tommy Lee

Being a family in general is a comedy of errors.
‐‐ Shannon Woodward

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche

Being a famous singer or an international singer - that's my dream, too, but my main goal is to be a real student and be able to graduate and be a lawyer and have my own business.
‐‐ Charice Pempengco

Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
‐‐ Billy Childish