Because of the tax on being different, individual actors in the labour market from different backgrounds can rationally value the same opportunities differently.
I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're with your friends.
I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.
We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.
The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me.
I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.
It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.
I had a ukulele when I was much younger. I have no idea what happened to it but I think that was part of it, just being inspired and wanting to try to play an instrument that, to me, sounded beautiful.
As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.
There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love.
I'm in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don't like being the centre of attention. I get up on stage every night and play songs, but I almost feel the songs are the centre of attention. I don't like opening my birthday presents in front of people, either.
Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.
American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
It's a weird profession, as I don't really consider myself an actor. I did at one point, and I went and started doing auditions, and I was so useless at them and so demoralised by doing audition after audition and not getting them and also not being able to take it in my stride at all. I just felt crushed and worthless.
While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.
After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.
I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.
There was a time during 'Gone Girl' that I'd come home, and I'd say, 'I get to be every part of being a woman in this role.' For me, I feel it much more as a springboard for the work I'm going to take on thereafter.
Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.
When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.
My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
What woman wouldn't want to be pursued in a flattering, non-physically threatening way by a gorgeous, fascinating, intelligent man? Being wanted, desired, being the focus of a man's aspirations, his goal, his grail - the one companion he must have to live contentedly - is one of the most universal and fundamental of female wishes.
A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.
Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.
I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.
