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Being Quotes


"I am being accused of all this plastic surgery, which is absolutely not true."


"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left."


"But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty."


"I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves."


"Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera."


"Lohan and I talk about just things that happen. It's Lindsay. She's great. I went from not knowing who she was to not being able to get rid of her because she's everywhere. She's on everything."



"You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen."


"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."



"I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers."



"Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words."


"When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side."


"But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?"


"It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being."



"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."


"Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay."


"You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb."


"Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters."



"I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!"



"I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it."



"I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing."


"No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying."


"Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture."



"I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims."


"When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process."


"Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being."


"The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin."


"Dick Enberg is still around and still being as good as he ever was."


"I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again."


"It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting."


"How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me."


"For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man."


"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little."


"The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things."
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