It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone who accepts being in this noble profession is automatically self-critical.
I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
I love being a mommy, and I love being an artist, and I love being a singer and an actress and making a movie - all that stuff I feel very passionate about, so I have a lot of energy for it.
There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.
The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.
Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.
I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.
Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.
A person could himself distinguish the human beings into different kind only, but a different person being only kind could distinguish himself to be a human.
I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?
Being alone is very difficult.
Human beings have an instinct for freedom.
Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.
I never pursued being 'famous.'
I was obsessed with being rich and famous.
There is this power that comes with being famous.
Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.
I'm good at being funny.
