Quotes of: Being Keyword

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.

Emmeline Pankhurst

I would say I'm basically interested in human beings, and I don't really care whether they're men or women. I think my comprehension is about the same for both.

Susanne Bier

Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

Ben Affleck

My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

Eli Wallach

I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

Nathan Fillion

A lot of times I'll make films that are mostly character-driven films - stories that involve people. Like, I make the joke: I like to make movies about human beings that live on Earth.

Rob Reiner

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.

Sid Caesar

Tom: Either she's an evil, emotionless, miserable human being, or... she's a robot.

(500) Days of Summer

Octavio: [to his brother Ramiro after being threatened] Being tough won't make you smart.

Amores Perros

Enzo: Don't look at Jaques as if he was a human being, he comes from another planet.

The Big Blue

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

Andrea Arnold

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

Amy Cuddy

The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.

Adam Driver

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

Ann Druyan

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Albert Einstein

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

Adolph Green

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Aldous Huxley

She starts to cry. 'It's just so terrible,' she says. 'Which part?,' I ask. 'Being human.

A.M. Homes

[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

Aldous Huxley

Let’s face it. It’s already hard being yourself, so why do we insist on adding pressure trying to please others.

Atlanta Hunter

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

Ashley Montagu