To Be Quotes
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“Jessica," he said gravely. "I will be your champion, if you let me. If I have to take on the role of knight, I want to be yours. Let me be your protector.
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I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.
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The number 9 has to be the one who scores the goals.
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Once in a while it can be a bit disconcerting to be so recognisable.
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It’s the most marvelous and terrible thing in the world. Everyone, but everyone, is pretending to be someone else.
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No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.
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I am honored and humbled to be nominated by the President to lead the FBI, the premier law enforcement organization in the world.
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They’ve seen too much to be children.
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I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.
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Peace is not enough, they must also be content.
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If I couldn’t play, I wouldn’t be alive.
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Be creative. Use your voice, your community.
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Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.
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You can't be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad - there's something in the middle of them, and that's really what you are and that's going to make you the best dad - not when you try to be one or the other.
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... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.
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Don’t try to fit in, you will be unhappy when you try to be something you are not.
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If I would be in this business for business, I wouldn't be in this business.
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And one day our grandkids will ask us, 'What was it like to be a minority?'
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Be stubborn if you wish to, if you need to, but we know how this will end.
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The change starts within each one of us. And ends only when all children are free to be children.
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One thing is plain in my old age. If you construct a human society in which one individual wields an enormous concentration of power, a high proportion of those who come to be that office bearer will be narcissist psychopaths. Because no-one else is so driven to acquire power.
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Try to be the best version of yourself.
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At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.
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Success is about persistence. You can only afford to be persistent in something you deeply enjoy.
