Being on the set of 'Super 8' was a very fun and relaxed environment.
Being physically fit helps me think better and feel better. I only have this one body. I want to make the most impact that I can; taking care of my body helps me help others. That's a big reason why I do it.
I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.
They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.
Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else.
I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.
I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.
You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.
I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces.
The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or being a doctor or entrepreneur, sometimes you get lucky, and right away something happens. But for most people, the common denominator of success is just working really hard.
I really do believe that being naturally beautiful is what is inside and what shines through.
I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.
England was always very special. It was so important because the reason Benny and I started writing was the Beatles. During the Sixties, England was everything. To be number one in England was more important than being number one in America because England set the tone.
The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you're going to take the resource.
I have to say that Common is one of the kindest, most humble, grateful individuals that I've ever met in my life. I was profoundly affected by meeting him. I think he is an outstanding human being.
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.
I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
Being single is not as bad as everyone likes to make it seem!
I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.
My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.
What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.
Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.
I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.
Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.
The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
