Top 100 Be Someone Quotes
#1. Not knowing who God made us to be, trying to be who we are not, or even just desiring to be someone else, can only lead to a life of misery, frustration, and unfulfillment.
Stormie O'martian
#2. You will be someone else if you did not answer the question "Who am I
Sunday Adelaja
#3. I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.
Michael Ignatieff
#4. I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.
Yakov Smirnoff
#5. I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I can't settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world won't let me. So what choice do I have but to become a fugitive?
Soseki Natsume
#6. The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#7. I am not Spock. But given the choice, if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock. If someone said, "You can have the choice of being any other TV character ever played," I would choose Spock. I like him. I admire him. I respect him
Leonard Nimoy
#8. An antisemite used to be someone who hates Jews; nowadays an antisemite is someone Jews hate.
Gilad Atzmon
#9. I don't need to be someone famous or George Clooney. I don't need to be any of these people to get involved in my community or reach out to one nationally.
Gbenga Akinnagbe
#10. There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.
Ira Gershwin
#11. I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.
Chinua Achebe
#12. I'm merely teaching you to be someone of pride and to be a good leader and that's the message I want you to take away from my music.
Sizzla
#13. My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotions like happiness and sadness and everything in between, that's what I want to be able to do.
Julia Voth
#14. Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
Nanci Griffith
#15. I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.
Nick Vujicic
#16. I can never be a person who has not made mistakes. But I can be someone honest who has lived through them: one of those who look you square in the eye and say, 'This is how it has been, and it is okay.
George Hodgman
#17. I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light.
James Turrell
#18. I'm not aiming to be someone like Christina Aguilera.
Gin Wigmore
#19. The way Winny saw it, the best thing and the worst thing were the same thing: nothing lasted ... what to say and felt you didn't belong anywhere, books were a way to lead another life, a way to be someone else entirely, to be anyone at all.
Dean Koontz
#20. If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.
Bruce Lee
#21. Those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.
Katherine Paterson
#22. Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'
Melanie Laurent
#23. You should just accept who you are, flaws and all, because if you try to be someone you aren't, then eventually some turkey is going to shit all over your well-crafted facade, so you might as well save yourself the effort and enjoy your zombie books.
Jenny Lawson
#24. I'm his. It's such a relief to be someone's, to not have to be my own.
Kiersten White
#25. I can't think straight around her. I think love
is turning me into a Disney character. Damn it. I always
thought I'd be someone interesting out of a Star Trek
episode, but I kind of want to break into a song a little.
Just a little.
Lexi Blake
#26. If I wasn't Eddie Albert's son, I'd be someone else's. It gave me a chance to do a lot of traveling, but mostly I'm glad I'm his son because he's such a good man.
Eddie Albert
#27. Anyone could be someone if only you looked a little closer
Pleasefindthis
#28. I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short.
Carey Lowell
#29. There are many ways to define what it means to be a geek, but certainly one definition has to be, Someone who does something normal people do, only while wearing special pants and talking about it constantly.
BikeSnobNYC
#30. Be someone who listens, and you will be heard. Be someone who cares, and you will be loved. Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed. Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.
Ralph Marston
#31. Nowadays everyone has a camera and the Internet means everything is instantly accessible. Unlike some photographers, I don't see this as a problem. If anything interesting happens in the world today, there will be someone around to record it.
Derek Ridgers
#32. I dress the way I want. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not.
Britney Spears
#33. Why do you pretend, when you can make it real? We like pretending to be someone else but the truth we just want to be ourselves.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#34. Oh. Yes. There would be someone, wouldn't there? Of course there would be a person. Ask at the farmhouse did not mean that you addressed your questions to the front porch. She had not thought it through.
T. Kingfisher
#35. I wanted to get away. I wanted something of my own. I wanted to be someone's star.
Meg Howrey
#36. Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'
Olly Murs
#37. Maybe this was why Owen had been so desperate to travel, why she'd longed for it herself without ever really knowing why. It wasn't just that you got to be somewhere else entirely. It was that you got to be someone else entirely, too.
Jennifer E. Smith
#38. Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.
Justin Bieber
#39. It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.
Colin Hay
#40. I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.
Kerry Bishe
#41. He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.
Hanya Yanagihara
#42. When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn't really know it.
Aneurin Barnard
#43. There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away.
Alexa Vega
#44. Don't lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone's little home.
Jeanette Winterson
#45. The way I see it, you can live your life as is, continuing to feel like an underdog, or you can step up. Be someone who matters, and make a change.
Kayla Krantz
#46. In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.
Confucius
#47. The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet.
J. Raymond
#48. Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.
Bryant McGill
#49. Love yourself as yourself. Never work to be someone else. Its too hard to keep up. Life is easier when you love you just as you are.
Janae Marie
#50. Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.
Stephen Cope
#51. I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
Marilyn Monroe
#52. As soon as you start claiming you can be someone that you are not, you are crazy.
Kristen Stewart
#53. ... Up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change.
Michael Ende
#54. Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.
Brian Celio
#55. You don't have to be someone special to achieve something amazing. You've just got to have a dream, believe in it and work hard.
Jessica Watson
#56. Wanting to be someone else is the waste of who you are
Kurt Cobain
#57. Women should be someone and not something.
Mary Cassatt
#58. I'd like to be someone on 'Games of Thrones.'
Amanda Peet
#59. I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.
Thomas Lennon
#60. It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different.
Deb Caletti
#61. We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not.
Tommy Tran
#62. No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.
Tom Clancy
#63. Are you anybody else's missing piece?'
'Not that I know of.'
'Well, maybe you want to be your own piece?'
'I can be someone's and still my own.'
'Well, maybe you don't want to be mine.'
'Maybe I do.
Shel Silverstein
#64. A man should keep on being constructive, and do constructive things. He should take part in the things that go on in this wonderful world. He should be someone to be reckoned with. He should live life and make every day count, to the very end. Sometimes it's tough. But that's what I'm going to do.
J. Willard Marriott
#65. You can't be someone who has never made a mistake, because there is no someone who has never made a mistake.
Sarvesh Jain
#66. I guess we're all lucky to be in this profession where you can be someone else for two or three months on a film shoot. I find it restful. Vachement agreable.
Jean Dujardin
#67. I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why.
Hiam Abbass
#68. Don't ever think you are nothing. Somewhere along the line, there is going to be someone who thinks you are everything
M.H.S. Pourri
#69. I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
Randy Harrison
#70. And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to.
Kurt Masur
#71. I just wanted to go to ... some quiet place. To forget. To be someone else.
Kelsey Sutton
#72. When we come in contact with our true self, we stop trying to be someone else. We fall in love with it and embrace it with all its flaws
Assegid Habtewold
#73. I never thought about being the highest paid. I just wanted to be someone that people cared about watching, and I feel I'm a good actor.
Jan-Michael Vincent
#74. It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.
John Dyer
#76. I come from an era, in my world, where you just had to define yourself as who you are and what you do. I happen to be an actor. I happen to be someone that loves to act, that also likes music, that also likes to speak, and that also has an opinion.
Idris Elba
#77. I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
Taissa Farmiga
#78. Maybe you should accept the fact that you've tried to be someone you're not for so long that no matter what you did, those bastards were never happy. They were never satisfied. They never gave a damn, did they?
Tahereh Mafi
#79. I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?
Nora Ephron
#81. I would like to be someone like Steve Martin. That's the path I'd like to follow.
Carrot Top
#82. ... sometimes when I close my eyes as I'm being taken, I can pretend that I'm someone special to these men. In my head I can be someone, someone worthy of love, not that white trash kid who left home on foot five years prior.
Candi Kay
#83. It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.
Peter Baynham
#84. I just wanted so badly to start over, be someone new, and then he came into my life. I didn't expect him, never even wanted anything like him before, but here he is. Now I kind of need him.
Amy Lunderman
#85. Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
Wayne Rooney
#86. I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.
Steve Carell
#87. I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.
Dane Cook
#88. When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it's not about playing a part: you're not in a film pretending to be someone - you are yourself. It's intimidating.
Alexandra Maria Lara
#89. Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt ... right. I felt free.
Ilona Andrews
#90. Be someone who lifts others higher, and your life will be rich. Be someone filled with gratitude, and there will be no end to the things for which you'll be thankful.
Ralph Marston
#91. Acting was my classroom in many ways and I always believed and I still do that acting is not just about pretending to be someone else, it's also about discovering yourself and reaching deeper inside yourself.
Kristen Stewart
#92. We can only be ourselves in the long run. Everyone can be someone else for a time. Actors have jobs for a reason. But eventually, our true natures win out. You never could have been someone else for long, even if you tried. It would have broken you
Jeanette Murray
#93. Because there will never be any boy's wrist to tie the balloon of your helium heart to (it has floated high far away from the heavy stone of that unnameable boy in chicago), you would never be with someone and then someone else, and you would definitely never be someone to someone else's else.
Terra Elan McVoy
#94. Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself.
Selena Gomez
#95. I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
Idina Menzel
#96. I tried to be someone else, but nothing seemed to change. I know now, this is who I really am inside. I've finally found myself, fighting for a chance.
I know now, this is who I really am.
Jared Leto
#97. It's okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that's what makes you special. Oh, and watch out if a dragon ever starts to dance ballet.
Jeff Hutchins
#98. There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.
Will Ferrell
#99. It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
Seneca The Younger
#100. And I'm sure everyone else would too if you only allowed them to see more of who you really are, rather than pretending to be someone you're not!
Adele Rose
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