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Being Quotes


"I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped."



"After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before."


"Nah, I'm not a prima donna, but I just don't like being cold and wet."



"I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed."


"The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid."



"If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible."



"With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit."


"Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent."


"I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter."


"Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist."


"I do remember being a fan of the Marvel characters and not liking the DC characters at all."



"There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important."



"The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets."


"Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most."


"It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights."


"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."


"Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had."



"It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video."


"Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures."


"Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot."


"Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like."


"Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst."


"The process of letting go is like taking a journey to the center of your being."


"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had."


"I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up."


"I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher."


"Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles."



"I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can."


"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."


"It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her."
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