All Quotes

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.
‐‐ Greta Garbo

Being a movie star isn't easy. It requires a lot of commitment and sacrifice. Your career goes through extreme ups and downs. You are judged all the time. Great things are written about you, but at the same time, not-so-good things are also said. At times, things are said about you that are completely untrue, and people mostly try to pull you down.
‐‐ Deepika Padukone

Being a mum changed me for the better.
‐‐ Jenny Frost

Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!
‐‐ Nicole Appleton

Being a Mum is a big job.
‐‐ Rita Ora

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.
‐‐ Julia Sawalha

Being a mum is the best thing that has ever been given to me in my life.
‐‐ Emilia Fox

Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.
‐‐ Ludivine Sagnier

Being a musician - and I like to think of myself as a musician with a capital M - you need to be an omnivore, and I think the best musicians will listen to anything and love everything, and I do.
‐‐ Jason Robert Brown

Being a musician doesn't take away your right as a citizen to speak your mind.
‐‐ Emily Robison

Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make a record, tour. It's just this cycle, and I don't think there's any life built into it with time to assimilate what's going on in front of you and what's going on in your head.
‐‐ Art Alexakis

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!
‐‐ Colbie Caillat

Being a musician is a noble profession.
‐‐ Paul Weller

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
‐‐ Bjork

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.
‐‐ Halsey

Being a musician since I was a teen, Guitar Center is the staple. You need anything to create, it's there. You need a Guitar Center. You gotta give it homage. It's a tool shed, and without the tool shed, it's hard to create.
‐‐ Steve Aoki

Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom.
‐‐ G. Willow Wilson

Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.
‐‐ Severo Ochoa

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.
‐‐ Ken Jennings

Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.
‐‐ Adam Rich

Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.
‐‐ Mia Maestro

Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby while in office, having heath care for myself and my son gave me some needed peace of mind.
‐‐ Claire McCaskill

Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me.
‐‐ Cindy Crawford

Being a non-swimmer, I've never been excited by the sea so avoid it on holidays.
‐‐ Donald Sinden

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
‐‐ Jennifer Weiner

Being a novelist is the adult version of a kid creating a make-believe world. But unlike a child, a writer of fiction has to come up with a structured story, one that has as much meaning for others as it has for her.
‐‐ Susan Isaacs

Being a novelty had its advantages.
‐‐ Jessica Savitch

Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.
‐‐ Nick Cave

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.
‐‐ Rosalind Wiseman

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Being a parent has been such a wonderful privilege for me. My kids make me laugh and cry, but there are definitely more laughs. They really do give my life meaning.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.
‐‐ Ani DiFranco

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
‐‐ J. B. Smoove

Being a parent is amazing.
‐‐ Angela Kinsey

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.
‐‐ Dee Snider

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
‐‐ Harlan Coben

Being a parent is not just about how you treat your child; it's also about how you treat the other parent. If you treat that person with respect, that's fine, that's the way to go. But if you don't, you're not being the parent you could be.
‐‐ Art Alexakis

Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.
‐‐ Nicole Ari Parker

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.
‐‐ Michelle Pfeiffer

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.
‐‐ Ron Taffel

Being a parent is very important to me.
‐‐ Diana Ross

Being a parent is weird. It changes people in subtle and unsubtle ways. In my case, it awoke a kind of manic sentinel in my brain. Anything in the house that might be a threat to the kids or to my wife gets terminated - food, sharp edges, poor wiring.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.
‐‐ Nick Earls

Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?
‐‐ Alice Dreger

Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

Being a part of a large family is just like a little society: those who fight to the top of the heap. We relied on each other and still do. They never discouraged me or told me to get a proper job.
‐‐ Octavia Spencer

Being a part of exhibitions is not a burden; it's another way for an independent label such as mine to reach a larger audience by exposing them to my whole body of work.
‐‐ Hussein Chalayan