B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“Because I'm shooting 'The New Normal' and 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' at the same time, so my schedule is double. I leave one show and go and shoot the other. The cameras are with me for, like, every day of my life. So I'm extremely tired.”
“Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.”
“Because I'm small, I've been called things from 'Happy Feet' to 'Little Face.'”
“Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.”
“Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.”
“Because I'm so known as a meat-chef, when I talk about Meatless Monday some people look at me like I've lost my mind. I'm like, look, I'm not saying beef and pork is bad, I love it and I eat it six days a week.”
“Because I'm so much in the spotlight, people lose sight of why I'm in the industry. In fact, I'm doing all this because I love to act. I love to perform, to sing.”
“Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.”
“Because I'm sort of an honorary Canadian, I don't think the others grasped the cultural significance of who the Tragically Hip were before the tour. Talking to Sheryl Crow and her people and the guys in Wilco, everyone was ecstatic to be on the tour, it was a lot of fun. But it even took me a while to grasp the idea that this is not just a band, this is a cultural artifact, what the Hip means in Canada. There is nobody else like them.”
“Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.”
“Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today.”
“Because I'm such a studio guy, I really trust my process. I really believe in myself in the studio.”
“Because I'm such a tomboy, I hate showing off my body.”
“Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.”
“Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.”
“Because I'm the only performer who comes out and says I've had plastic surgery, I've become the plastic surgery poster girl, which is hilarious, because everybody has done it and they all deny it. They stand there, like the Bride of Frankenstein, they've all got stitches, and they all say, 'I've done nothing.' I talk about it.”
“Because I'm thinking in a broader way, I feel like I am able to make better decisions.”
“Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.”
“Because I've always aspired to direct and produce, I've literally worked with about 200 directors and countless producers, so what I appreciate is how, through osmosis and through actually asking questions and through people offering wisdom, there's a lot in there.”
“Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.”
“Because I've always been a runner I love to feel that my body is shining on the inside. I wear baggy clothes, so it's not as though I like showing it off. I just like to know I'm great on the inside.”
“Because I've always been more afraid of writing than I have of doing anything visually such as directing or acting.”
“Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.”
“Because I've been around forever and ever, like wallpaper, people ask me for secrets... it's the same with my skin care range; that's out of necessity. As soon as I saw the first signs, I bought everything in the market.”
“Because I've been at it so long and very steadily, I have a lot of credits, but I probably have twice as many scripts that were never made for whatever reason.”
“Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.”
“Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.”
“Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.”
“Because I've been that drunk person in the club so many thousands of times, when I'm in an environment where people are drunk or on drugs, I certainly don't judge them. Because it's almost a given that for much of my life I've been way more messed up than them.”
“Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.”
“Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.”
“Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.”
“Because I've never made this kind of movie before, so I've never even been to Comic-Con. And Hugh and Evangeline keep telling me, 'Oh, my god... This is such Comic-Con fodder. We're going to have such a fun summer!' Is this the kind of thing they show? That length?”
“Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.”
“Because I've taken my clothes off in public doesn't mean that I've revealed every inch of my soul.”
“Because I-I'm someone who wants to kiss you. Be with you." Eli says as if it is obvious, as if I know what is written on his heart.”
Source: Between Here and Forever
“Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.”
“Because if a woman can't trust the man who said he'd love her forever, who in this world can you trust?”
Source: Believe Me
“Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.”
Source: Dracula: Top 100 Classic Novels
“Because if analytics are people, as I stated early on, it stands to reason that transactions are relationships.”
Source: Pixels and Place: Connecting Human Experience Across Physical and Digital Spaces
“Because if every moment of a life is present in every other, so is every old self you've ever tried to outrun. And then how to know—the present self having always felt flimsy, somehow, compared to the one so acutely alive under the kitchen table—which you, specifically, is the real one?”
Source: City on Fire
“Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place.”
“Because if evil like that is real, then God has to be real too.”
Source: Ezekiel's Eyes
“Because if he looked like he was unaffected by her smile, then she would not realize that, in actuality, he was in an utter panic because somewhere deep down inside he’d realized that his life had just changed forever.”
Source: The Lady Most Likely: A Novel in Three Parts
“Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity.
And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.”
“Because if I break, they'll break too. It's a responsibility I'd never really felt before, or at least I never thought about enough to name. But, Bo's actions just cement my place in my family. He can walk away from the dinner table. I can't.”
Source: A World Without You
“Because if I don't, Ember will go without me and get herself killed! Riley snapped, and finally looked in my direction. Those piercing gold eyes met mine across the room, the shadow of Riley's true form staring at me.I shivered as he held my gaze. Because she doesn't know St. George like I do, he went on. She hasn't seen what they're capable of. She doesn't know what they do to our kind if we're discovered. I do. And I'm not going to let that happen.”
Source: Rogue
“Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.”