All Quotes

Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.
‐‐ Steve Carell

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.
‐‐ Margaret Mahy

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to pull that off I think is really interesting and clearly very smart.
‐‐ Carrie Coon

Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I'm working in the middle of movie history is incredible.
‐‐ Betsy Beers

Being a little naive can work to your advantage.
‐‐ Gia Coppola

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.
‐‐ Sandy Gallin

Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I've got a really short attention span.
‐‐ Jesse Kellerman

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.
‐‐ Nicole Richie

Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.
‐‐ John Oliver

Being a Midwesterner, I know that many of the middle-class manufacturing jobs that had been at the heart of our economy are either gone or going, and they're not coming back.
‐‐ Eli Broad

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

Being a model, you know, it's a short-lived vocation.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
‐‐ Karen Elson

Being a mom has been my most important job to date, and I take my job very seriously, and I have a lot of fun doing it.
‐‐ Jessica Capshaw

Being a mom has made me a better person. It's made me more compassionate. It's just awesome. I think I was put here to be a mom.
‐‐ Stephanie Mills

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.
‐‐ Tina Fey

Being a mom is hard, but I don't want people to feel like they always have to go straight to the TV dinner or go to the fast food because you have a busy, hectic life.
‐‐ Tia Mowry

Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.
‐‐ Gwen Stefani

Being a mom is really the greatest role in my life.
‐‐ Kim Fields

Being a mom is what life is about. I hope people realize what the priorities in life should be and know not everything has to be perfect.
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian

Being a mom, it feels like I did something so powerful and amazing. It's such a gigantic blessing, and a confirmation that the Creator exists. And all of that has made me feel sexier and stronger. I call it 'lava in my spine.'
‐‐ Jill Scott

Being a mom kind of grounded me in a way. Your body takes on a whole new meaning.
‐‐ Kelly Overton

Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.
‐‐ Rebecca Romijn

Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.
‐‐ Ashlee Simpson

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

Being a 'monopoly' is not illegal, nor is trying to best one's competitors through lower prices, better customer service, greater efficiency, or more rapid innovation.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.
‐‐ Julie Walters

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.
‐‐ Alexandra Stoddard

Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career.
‐‐ Jenni Rivera

Being a mother changes perspective. Things that were once really important, the sole focus of your life, aren't the same.
‐‐ Jessica Ennis-Hill

Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong.
‐‐ Mary Beth Whitehead

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.
‐‐ Anna Friel

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
‐‐ Katey Sagal

Being a mother is by far my greatest accomplishment.
‐‐ Isla Fisher

Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
‐‐ Ruby Wax

Being a mother is magical.
‐‐ Ellen Pompeo

Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.
‐‐ Salma Hayek

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like.
‐‐ Kathleen Sebelius

Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.
‐‐ Halle Berry

Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.
‐‐ Kirsty Gallacher

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
‐‐ Brigitte Nielsen

Being a mother is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me in my life.
‐‐ Cindy Margolis

Being a mother is the most fun job I've ever had.
‐‐ Ellen Pompeo

Being a mother makes everything more urgent.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.
‐‐ Sarah Clarke

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera

Being a mother was too important to me to risk running out of time.
‐‐ Monica Cruz

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
‐‐ Norma Shearer