B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Being alone should not make
you feel lonely. Use that time to
discover your purpose and fulfil
it. In the silence, you will find
a secret key to unlocking the
doors of destiny.”
Source: Your Life, Your Purpose: 365 Motivational Quotes
“Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that.”
Source: A Wild Light: Hunter Kiss:
“Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.”
Source: On the heights: a novel
“Being alone will show you who you really are, and if you cannot get-on positively as the sole master of your space in that room alone, then you can absolutely forget about it after you add another person.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him. He's not frightened of her, actually he is a pretty relaxed person, but he fears being around her, because of the confusing way he finds himself behaving, the things he says that he would never ordinarily say”
Source: Normal People
“Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.”
Source: Jenny Holzer: writing
“being alone you decided, was a
magnificent miracle.
nothing else made any
sense at all.
—escape”
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
“Being along with the Nature your soul is stronger than all disasters.”
“Being aloof, gruff, or stern never got anyone anywhere. Who wants to be treated like that? Certainly not you. And surely not the people you meet.”
Source: The Business Bible: 10 New Commandments for Bringing Spirituality & Ethical Values Into the Workplace
“Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.”
Source: Myself
“Being always right is not always right in the wrong places.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.”
“Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else.”
“Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.”
“Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.”
“Being Americans, we prosecute wars to win them, not to have reasonable response, not to have appropriate levels of retaliation. Our theory is you start bombing our cities; we're going to defeat you and make it impossible.”
“Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.”
Source: The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
“Being amongst rough lives and confusion does not make you less, it only makes your beauty shine out more clearly.”
Source: The Jackie Chan Fan Club
“Being an # entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes # strength of character to keep going.”
“Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.”
“Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.”
“Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.”
“Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.”
“Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career-and then you move to Paris.”
“Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.”
“Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.”
“Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.”
“Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.”
“Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.”
“Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.”
“Being an actor is definitely not about sitting around on set and having a cigarette or something. It's about acting. The more you can audition, then that's the best thing ever because you learn so much and you get your face out there and you grow your confidence.”
“Being an actor is definitely not the hardest job in the world - it's definitely a first-world problem to have, but I'm not very good with rejection. I constantly question whether or not I'm suited for this business, because it is your job to get rejected.”
“Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years.”
“Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.”
“Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas.”
“Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.”
“Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.”
“Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.”
“Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.”
“Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.”
“Being an actor is wonderful and it's a lot of fun, but eventually you look old and you can't fit this or that. It's important to have other skills, be able to do other things, and to really learn how this business works and what it thrives on.”
“Being an actor lets me be a million different things.”
“Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.”
“Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.”
“Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.”
“Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.”
“Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.”
“Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.”
“Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.”
“Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.”