All Quotes

Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.
‐‐ Mark Cuban

Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me.
‐‐ Stevie Nicks

Being able to travel and see the world really makes me appreciate the blessings in my life. There are so many people that will never get a chance to see some of the things that I've seen during my travels. I'll never take that for granted.
‐‐ Laz Alonso

Being able to travel the world is pretty cool. There are places that I've always wanted to go to but being able to go there as somebody who's a musician and is recognised as one is cool.
‐‐ Tinie Tempah

Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
‐‐ Damien Rice

Being able to work on a more constrained project now and then is rewarding in a lot of ways, and of the available small platforms, I think that the iOS platform is clearly the best.
‐‐ John Carmack

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.
‐‐ Simon Travaglia

Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination.
‐‐ Michael Pryor

Being about to land on the soil of North Carolina, the general commanding desires his soldiers to remember that they are here to support the Constitution and the laws, to put down rebellion, and to protect the persons and property of the loyal and peaceable citizens of the State.
‐‐ Ambrose Burnside

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
‐‐ Mary McCarthy

Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

Being acknowledged by 'Vogue' and invited to do 'Today I'm Wearing' was a really great moment for me, and the photo diary of my outfits was a really fun thing to do.
‐‐ Suki Waterhouse

Being actors is a strange job.
‐‐ Paul Dano

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.
‐‐ Jay Griffiths

Being afraid to tell the truth because of the projected consequences, whatever it may be, shows a lack of faith and an abundance of fear.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.
‐‐ Jeb Bush

Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not.
‐‐ Tracy McMillan

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
‐‐ Martin Heidegger

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
‐‐ Tom Sizemore

Being alone is very difficult.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.
‐‐ Dave Davies

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.
‐‐ Etgar Keret

Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
‐‐ Aasif Mandvi

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.
‐‐ David Mamet

Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.
‐‐ Steve Carell

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.
‐‐ Christine Quinn

Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.
‐‐ Michael Beck

Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
‐‐ Natasha Little

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.
‐‐ Sarah Michelle Gellar

Being an actor has always been my dream.
‐‐ Joe Taslim

Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.
‐‐ Joseph Mazzello

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.
‐‐ Alex Pettyfer

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.
‐‐ Joel Kinnaman

Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
‐‐ Gary Oldman

Being an actor is a lot more involved than many people realize; there are hundreds of ways to play any character. Even for a stylized bad guy, there are 4 or 5 different personalities I can play off the top of my head without thinking - better and more experienced actors can do dozens or hundreds.
‐‐ Conan Stevens

Being an actor is a matter of choice that, above all, takes place at an existential level: either you express the conservative structures of society and are nothing more that a tool in the hands of power, or you address the progressive components of this society in an attempt to settle a revolutionary relation between art and life.
‐‐ Gian Maria Volonte

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.
‐‐ Grant-Lee Phillips

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.
‐‐ Amanda Burton

Being an actor is great; you chill in your trailer, and they bring you a breakfast burrito and coffee. But as director, you're responsible for every little thing.
‐‐ Justin Chon

Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.
‐‐ Rose Byrne

Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.
‐‐ Mark Strickson

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.
‐‐ Amanda Peet

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
‐‐ James Dean

Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.
‐‐ Ben Chaplin

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
‐‐ Ralph Fiennes

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
‐‐ Catherine Deneuve