- Realize
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- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more you know about somebody's back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices resonate full-body instead of just being quick, quippy one-liners that are just like a bunch of people trying to be clever. Because after a while, cleverness is just really obnoxious!
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing wrong with being a capitalistic society, but it's taken the place of faith.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't mind being a bit taller.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didn't know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that 'beyond' became internalized in our psyche.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think, as a young guy, I was always drawn to being in wild places. Climbing was a logical extension of that.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creating content, creating art, material, being a job creator - it's all very, very important. Very important.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
What America was built on was being able to say, 'Hey, we're going to come in and use our resources to build for ourselves and our communities and build around that. We're not going to depend on others.'
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out as being a diva in a golden dress and now to a more bearded drag artist guy in boots.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020