I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn't ornate; he wrote with flow and naturalism.
I can never consent to being dictated to.
Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
The real product at Diesel is satisfaction. My satisfaction at Diesel is being a pioneer.
I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take that out of it and put in a guitar or keyboard, it would be considered funk-rock music.
With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.
I'm used to traveling. I'm used to being in different areas of the world. Home is where my suitcase lands.
Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see.
I'm not the dude with the message. I'm a human being with different sides, different shades and different emotions, different feelings.
I stopped being interested in improvisation, and I continue to not be that interested in it. Comedians can do it on a different level because they have a goal, but if you're improvising something that's dramatic, there's not that much to be good at.
Being asked by Oprah Winfrey to be on her show and do her eyebrows in 2006 - to me, that was like getting an Oscar. It was a stamp of approval from a woman that is incredible. It propelled my career to a different level.
It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.
When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.
Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.
We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.
Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.
