All Quotes

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.
‐‐ Jackie Chan

Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.
‐‐ Bruce Rauner

Being a superhero is a lot of fun.
‐‐ Chris Hemsworth

Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

Being a swimsuit model that talks so much on Twitter... everyone thinks that I could definitely pull back. You kind of open yourself up to all the criticism. That's definitely a big downside to this whole world. How can you complain about people critiquing your body when you're literally like, 'Look at my body!'
‐‐ Chrissy Teigen

Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.
‐‐ Bill Plympton

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.
‐‐ Victoria Justice

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.
‐‐ Sarah Michelle Gellar

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
‐‐ Ally Condie

Being a teenager, I would think they were real strict, and I would get upset, but I'm glad they were like that. They didn't let us do whatever we wanted. We weren't allowed to date until we were, like, juniors in high school.
‐‐ Denise Richards

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.
‐‐ Sophia Bush

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.
‐‐ Melvin Burgess

Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom.
‐‐ Troian Bellisario

Being a teenager is hard.
‐‐ Mae Whitman

Being a teenager, it's so hard to find foundation that's good for your skin for everyday wear.
‐‐ Becky G

Being a third-generation Mexican-American and speaking English exclusively, I heard Spanish spoken by my relatives all my life, especially when they didn't want me to understand what they were talking about.
‐‐ Cheech Marin

Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.
‐‐ Victoria Pendleton

Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left.
‐‐ John Waters

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
‐‐ Taiye Selasi

Being a twin, and knowing if my twin was gone or lost - that's a part of me. There's no way I could be the same person knowing my brother had passed away.
‐‐ Scott Ellis

Being a typical Briton, I love my home comforts and always try and find an English pub where I can tuck into some traditional English food, accompanied by a nice pint. Fortunately, I haven't been ill with food poisoning or anything like that, which is quite surprising considering how many different types of food I eat when I'm travelling.
‐‐ Olly Murs

Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.
‐‐ Julius Erving

Being a typical teenager isn't easy. When you have autism, it can be extra difficult. We need more public awareness about these hurdles as well as compassion towards these young people.
‐‐ Holly Robinson Peete

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.
‐‐ John Berger

Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
‐‐ Moby

Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal.
‐‐ Steve-O

Being a vegetarian Buddhist would be a bit harsh to deal with in the kitchen, so I'm a Taoist, I study martial arts, and I don't drink or smoke.
‐‐ Arthur Potts Dawson

Being a vegetarian really saves lives.
‐‐ Esha Gupta

Being a Victoria's Secret model, which was always my dream.
‐‐ Heidi Klum

Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.
‐‐ Shawn Ashmore

Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
‐‐ Dave Matthews

Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.
‐‐ Genie Francis

Being a woman, an actor in Hollywood, I know that there are certain parts I won't often get a chance to do.
‐‐ Erin Way

Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.
‐‐ Laura Ricketts

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
‐‐ Frances Perkins

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry sort of sucks, but it doesn't suck any more than being a woman in the world. My advice? Be terrifying.
‐‐ Kelly Sue DeConnick

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.
‐‐ Erin Andrews

Being a woman in control of a company - even a small private company, as ours was then - was so singular and surprising in those days that I necessarily stood out. In 1963, and for the first several years of my working life, my situation was certainly unique.
‐‐ Katharine Graham

Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.
‐‐ Martha Wainwright

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz

Being a woman is really crap.
‐‐ Siobhan Fahey

Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
‐‐ Buchi Emecheta

Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to.
‐‐ Casper Van Dien

Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.
‐‐ Jami Gertz