#being

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#anthony hopkins #being #career #ended #film

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#being #exactly #great #great advantage #knows

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#being #clearly #country #culture #dominates

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#coward #drunk #gets #goes #man

I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable. ↗

— David Walliams

#company #i #i love #love #off

All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story. ↗

— Foxy Brown

#being #black #father #friends #getting

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#being #bill #drummers #fabulous #head

I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two. ↗

— Chris Christie

#anybody #being #best #i #number

Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was. ↗

— Stephen Root

#because #being #business #character #character actor

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. ↗

— Ned Rorem

#artist #being #ceases #childhood #grows