- Funny
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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
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Slumdog' initiated a chain of events like going to Cannes and being invited to the Cairo Film Festival, which changed my perspective of cinema and of being an actor forever.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Lars von Trier. 'Dogville' is my favourite movie of the last 20 years. 'Nymphomaniac' and 'Melancholia' aren't quite as exciting as 'The Kingdom', 'Breaking the Waves', or 'The Idiots', but I'll always love him for being him.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid likes to reminisce about being an amateur boxer. But his Senate tenure has often looked like an endless rope-a-dope.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The president's powers are always open to being questioned by the co-equal branches of government.
- Nov 07, 2020
I hate being rejected.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, yes - being interested in acting never changes. Acting is in your blood, and of course I'll always be interested in it.
- Human Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't attend to something, you can't be aware of it. But ironically, you can attend to something without being aware of it.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do.
- Nov 07, 2020