All Quotes

Being in Vietnam and being around a major story of the time was always a great shot of adrenaline.
‐‐ Horst Faas

Being in Weezer's just gotten so much more fun over the years. I love almost every part of my job. My very favorite part is working on new songs.
‐‐ Rivers Cuomo

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
‐‐ Tori Amos

Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
‐‐ Ja Rule

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.
‐‐ Tony Hillerman

Being inducted into the songwriting hall of fame by Clive Davis, that was pretty memorable.
‐‐ Diane Warren

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
‐‐ Hans Hofmann

Being influential is not the mark of a great book.
‐‐ Mortimer Adler

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.
‐‐ Bobby Rahal

Being innovative in your philanthropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.
‐‐ M. Night Shyamalan

Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
‐‐ Edgardo Osorio

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.
‐‐ Krista Tippett

Being invisible would be pretty great. You could watch everybody, sneak into places and know what people were saying.
‐‐ Jaime Pressly

Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.
‐‐ Mark Canton

Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor.
‐‐ Luke Evans

Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
‐‐ Clarence Clemons

Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid

Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
‐‐ Colin Farrell

Being Irish means you belong to the clan. It's what you feel. They feel Irish.
‐‐ Martin Naughton

Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.
‐‐ Margot Robbie

Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain.
‐‐ Russell Means

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

Being is like pretending.
‐‐ Mira Sorvino

Being is the great explainer.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

Being isolated and on-location can be helpful in terms of being completely dedicated to the work, but somebody like me can also be dangerous in terms of this intense sort of void that you kind of potentially fall into.
‐‐ Michael Raymond-James

Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.
‐‐ Luca Parmitano

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
‐‐ Zsa Zsa Gabor

Being Jewish has always been important to me. I now have 6M tattooed on the inside of my left arm. It's only a half-inch, but every time anyone sees it, they're reminded of the six million who perished, and so am I.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach

Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step away from, but it was much more difficult than that.
‐‐ Johnny Vegas

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.
‐‐ Rafe Spall

Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships.
‐‐ Matt Damon

Being known for musicals is a great thing.
‐‐ Zac Efron

Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed.
‐‐ Paul Watson

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
‐‐ Natalie Martinez

Being Latina, I'm super close with my family. I love them, and I love spending time with them. I love being at my grandma's house and eating her food.
‐‐ Emeraude Toubia

Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.
‐‐ John F. Kerry

Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn't necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps.
‐‐ Susan Estrich

Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
‐‐ Gabriel Byrne

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.
‐‐ Clare Balding

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
‐‐ Queen Victoria

Being married has helped my racing.
‐‐ Casey Stoner

Being married, I've got so many things to do that I am the last to do things for myself. Taking care of my body has been difficult, but I am doing the best that I can.
‐‐ Ian Ziering