“I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).” IfsThinkingHumansWellsMightFallHuman BeingsKnownRolesFiveHappenedMonthsLuckyMarriedWell KnownGet WellNightclubs Author:Eric McCormack
“In my opinion, neither organisms nor organizations evolve slowly and surely into something better, but drift until some small change occurs which has immediate and overwhelming significance. The special role of the human being is not to wait for these favorable accidents but deliberately to introduce the small change that will have great significance.” HumansWaitingHuman BeingsOpinionRolesSpecialEvolutionOrganizationAccidentsEvolveSignificanceOverwhelmingIntroducingOrganismsSomething BetterSmall Changes Author:Edwin Land
“Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.” WorldHumansUnderstandingHuman BeingsRolesRelationResponsibleConsumingDeprivingComprehending Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of life is as natural to me as staying in one place is for other people. I do variations on the theme. I return to places where I used to be. I find my old personas. I try them on. If they still fit, I wear them out to a party or a show. If they begin to restrict my movements, I take them off. I am a human being, capable of mimicking anything I see or remember or can imagine.” PeopleIfsWayTryingHumansHas BeensStillsDifferentShowsSchoolRememberMovingLife IsUsedHouseNaturalHuman BeingsPartyRolesImagineMovementIdentityReturnFitCapableAssumingUsed To BeThemeStayingVariationPersonaMimicking Book:Falling Through Space Source: Falling Through Space
“I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.” KnowsHumansSelfUseHuman BeingsRolesUniqueModelsExpectationsCopiesRole ModelsDevotedNot InterestedUniquenessFulfillingBeing A Role ModelUnique Self Book:The Same River Twice Source: The Same River Twice
“It sometimes looks as though woman would not be woman unless man insisted upon it, since she tends so markedly to be just a human being when away from men, and only on their approach does she begin to play her required role.” MenHumansLooksDoeSometimesPlayWomenHuman BeingsRolesApproach Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell
“Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy of capacities. Then we would be concerned with human creative productivity. And we would come full circle, since each human being can then act within his company as co-creator of the future, can - in full dignity - contribute to shaping this future.” HumansWould BeHuman BeingsCompanyRolesEconomyCreativeCapacityConcernedDignityCreatorProductivityCirclesMetamorphosisMarket EconomyFull Circle Author:Joseph Beuys
“The human being that I strive to be is a great human being, like a loving human being, but as an actor, you take on roles that are not you and that's the fun part for me as far as acting goes. You really get to learn about other human beings and not judge.” HumansActorsFunHuman BeingsActingRolesJudgingStrive Author:Common
“I don't have to sympathize or empathize with a human being in order to be able to portray them. I mean, some of the greatest roles that actors have been able to play haven't been the most endearing on screen.” HumansMeanHas BeensPlayAbleOrderActorsHuman BeingsRolesHavensScreensEndearing Author:Dustin Lance Black
“Because the role-model pressure becomes so insane, the personal and private takes a backseat to whatever it takes to maintain that fame and to maintain that lifestyle, and before you know it you're not a human being anymore.” KnowsHumansHuman BeingsRolesFameModelsPressureLifestyleInsaneRole ModelsWhatever It TakesBackseat Author:Amber Tamblyn
“If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I'm in it, whatever that means, I'm expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.” IfsWayFeelsHumansMeanI CanHelpingHuman BeingsRolesTalentExerciseCommunicate Author:Al Pacino
“Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people] to reconnect with what we really value and with the qualities of life that really can sustain us - which include reconnecting with our roles as citizens, community members, and human beings.” PeopleHumansValuesOpportunityCommunityHuman BeingsQualityRolesCitizensComfortMembersAddictionConsumersMentalityConvenienceQuality Of LifeReconnecting Author:Tim DeChristopher
“The beauty of when you watch good television or films is that, yes, you may have a multi-cultural cast but those roles could be anybody - they could be white, they could be black. To show the world that we have more in common than we have different with each other is to me the ultimate goal of all of that. It does help unite in people's mind the thought that people are the same. Yes, there's going to be cultural differences, but for the most part, we are all in the same gang as human beings.” PeopleWorldMindHumansMayDoeDifferentHelpingShowsFilmGoalBlackDifferencesHuman BeingsWhiteCommonRolesWatchesTelevisionUltimateCastsGangUltimate GoalCultural Differences Author:Mekhi Phifer
“The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.” MenHumansTwoIdeasRealitySexHuman BeingsRolesCrazyPlanetsStrikesExploringOtherness Author:Yann Martel
“I make many mistakes. Many mistakes. I'm not a perfect human being. I have to learn from my mistakes. And a lot of the ones I've made have been public. So I always get nervous when people speak about something that sounds like a role model, because I don't know if I've been a great role model myself.” PeopleIfsKnowsHumansHas BeensMadeSpeakSoundHuman BeingsPerfectMistakeRolesModelsNervousRole ModelsMy MistakesLearn From My MistakesGreat Role Models Author:Naomi Campbell