- Memory
- |
- 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
- Country
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist.
- Deformed
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
- Know
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.
- End
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen mothers and children really being vulnerable in the refugee camps; it's supposed to be temporary, but they end up having children who have grown up in refugee camps.
- Feeling
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's an awful feeling, being hungry.
- Human
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
- Down
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
- Reason
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.
- Person
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.
- Just
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest challenge to being an actor is, when you're not working, just being unemployed: the downtime and not having anything to do.
- Media
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have social media, and I'm not, I guess, that adept at being on the Internet.
- Beautiful Things
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
One of the beautiful things about being a part of 'Star Wars' is that it's one of those few things that are community-building in that way. Maybe that way of putting it is a little self-important. But it is something we all have a connection to, something everybody knows about. There aren't that many of those things.
- Foreigner
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Being a foreigner is not a disease.
- Opinion
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Most people say they're slaves, but in my opinion, to say that I am a slave is to take ownership of actually being a slave - to be a tool, be a thing. Basically cattle.
- Mistakes
- |
- Nov 07, 2020