Being Quotations | Page 4

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

TLC has helped me to know that as a musician, I can talk about anything; that there are no barriers, and that you can be yourself. That's what I love about them. Left Eye in particular helped me to stay on top of my A game. She's one of the best female MCs that I've heard.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.

I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.

It's not just being overweight that's dangerous. Stress is dangerous.

I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.

I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

I want to work, but being a mom is my No. 1 priority.

I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

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.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

In America, you don't have to be weak, you have to be strong.

Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say WITH respect.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.

When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, thats fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.

I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

Well-being is how I feel in my skin, not about how other people are looking at me and what they see... its what I feel like.

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don't mean that I was spoilt - he didn't believe in material gifts - but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things.

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.

I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love.

I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it's possible to be ageless - people should applaud and celebrate that. Anybody who criticises her is just jealous!

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.

I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.

I got a lot happening, a whole lot, and it's not always easy being me.

I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself.

I'm not afraid of working hard at anything, whatever it is. I just always want to be the best that I can.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

I always want to be the best and if I can't, I don't want to run.

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.

The Singapore Open is the flagship event of the Asian Tour, it is a massive event and it is being played in a great place. I love coming here and it is good to be back.

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

It's always tough when you lose - you've worked so hard for that moment and it hasn't gone the way you wanted. But you have to realise there's always a bright side, you have to pick yourself up and get ready for the next game.

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.

I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

Being sexy is something inside, and not everybody has it.

Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.

I'm going to go out and be the best quarterback I can be and get the most out of my potential.

I am a clairaudient healer. My specialty is being able to discern the blocks within a person's energy that are prohibiting them from being free, happy, and powerful.

I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.

I love being pregnant. You can do whatever you want.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

New York's a big playground. I have a bike, and I'm really into just being outside. Especially in the summertime.

The thing that drives me more than anything else is being a father.