- Learning
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Being Quotes
On identity, openness and staying true to yourself.
This set of quotes explores what it means to simply be: holding onto a child's spontaneity, embracing honesty that feels inappropriate in creative work, or aging with flexibility instead of resistance. For more on self-belief, see our Able quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Experience
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.
- Humble
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.
- Nov 07, 2020
I remember being a student, and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.
- Matter
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.
- Play
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Being the youngest of 12, I always had to wait my turn in line to play my records.
- Early Days
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.
- Community
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I first moved to Hollywood from Silicon Valley, I had some misgivings. But I found that there were some advantages to being in Hollywood. And, in fact, some advantages to owning your own media company. And I also found that Hollywood and Silicon Valley have a lot more in common than I would have dreamed.
- Down
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I have femininity, I have masculinity, but I get to use all of Jeffrey, and that's very powerful. And this is what I always thought when I went down in my little basement in San Francisco, where I grew up, and daydreamed about being an actor: It felt like this. This is what it felt like.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.
- Day
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.
- Faith
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We are seeing people of faith being attacked, discriminated against, and losing their jobs because they are speaking out on the marriage issue.
- Doing
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals.
- Open
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
How many thousands of lives would be saved if we enforced our immigration laws, our guns laws, and our drug laws? Public safety is not being held hostage by the 'gun lobby,' but by the open borders lobby and the anti-law enforcement lobby.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020