Being Quotations | Page 5

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.

You have to be in love with yourself before anyone else can fall in love with you; to be happy with yourself.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.

I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term

I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.

You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

I like relationships and being in love, but I also like being single - you have to embrace all those different things.

Dolly Parton... I love being around that woman! I worked really hard to keep up with her.

You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman it amazes me still.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

I wanted to be the best in the world.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

I want to be the best. That's just the human way.

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

Don't try to impress people. Always be yourself!

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

I want things to be the best they can be I want greatness.

Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.

I don't really want to control anyone, to be honest.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

I love every aspect of being a woman. I believe you should celebrate who you are.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.

We have to nurture our young women and understand the beauty and the strength of being a woman. It's kind of a catch-22: Strength in women isn't appreciated, and vulnerability in women isn't appreciated. It's like, 'What the hell do you do?' What you do is you don't allow anyone to dictate who you are.

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.

In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

Now we have so many more social outlets, so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle, then don't have a Twitter or Facebook account. Just be yourself. Be who you want to be.

I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead!

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck.

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.

Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.

You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

I met P. Diddy. Or Diddy. I like to call him Puffy because, let's be honest, that's who he is.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description.

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.