A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.
Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.
I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.
We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.
I know I never saw Casey Stengel when I was being scouted. And how could you be in a ballpark and not know if Casey Stengel was there?
I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.
There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.
Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
As much as I was encouraged by the number of female-centric shows being bandied about, it feels like we're being treated like a trend or a quota to be filled.
Being on 'Bandstand' was like getting a Nobel Prize. From 3 o'clock in the afternoon until 5:30, nobody was on the street. They were watching 'Bandstand.'
My hair had been dyed blonde for 'Dredd.' After 'Dredd,' I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during 'Being Flynn.'
Being a Baptist won't keep you from sinning, but it'll sure as hell keep you from enjoying it.
We begin the process of being born again through exercising faith in Christ, repenting of our sins, and being baptized by immersion for the remission of sins by one having priesthood authority.
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.
Being a barber is about taking care of the people.
I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.
We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.
