- 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
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started acting when I was young, and I didn't go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside going to school and being a normal person.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like all teenagers can relate to that feeling of being, like, so highly strung, and everything is so on the surface, and everything is so extreme.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
- Devotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started this character, it was me being 12 years old again. We would have other wrestlers come to our promos, and I'd geek out over them and show my excitement. I would just grab them and not let go.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being the NXT Women's Champion.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Beautiful' is a freestyle, actually. I actually made 'Beautiful' being like, 'I just want something to post on Instagram, like, I don't care, I'm just gonna throw something up today.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been short, and most people want to be taller. That's sort of a thing, but I love being short.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020