Top 100 Quotes About Being Someone
#1. I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance ... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.
Toby Young
#2. Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.
Yeardley Smith
#3. I don't judge the character at all. It's a bit like being someone's defense lawyer - you have to believe in their innocence in order to defend them.
Rachel Weisz
#4. I guess the magic of being someone else is lost when you can never quite shed your own skin.
Julie Murphy
#5. No offense but I don't relish being someone's science experiment. Been there, done that, and sold the T-shirt for profit. (Sebastian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#6. Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
Ralph Fiennes
#7. Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
Meryl Streep
#8. Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#9. I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.
Jack Osbourne
#10. I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
Dani Shapiro
#11. I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.
Lena Dunham
#12. I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.
J.M.G. Le Clezio
#13. I have established a reputation for being someone who, if you tell her to do one thing, will almost certainly do the other. I also have a temper.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#14. It just gets hard, always being someone's second choice
Morgan Matson
#16. I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.
Renee Fleming
#17. Do you think my being someone else's wife will change anything? Don't you know that I'd lie with you in the groves, under the light of the moon? That I'd defy the laws of gods and men for you?
Richelle Mead
#18. He just explained that he just wanted to help people and that was his way of helping people of, you know, being someone that he wasn't and trying to connect with somebody on a different level too and help 'em out.
Manti Te'o
#19. You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.
Michael Palin
#20. I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that ... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.
Miley Cyrus
#21. Getting loved by yourself is the best thing that can happen to you. After all your heart is a part of you. Before being someone else's.
Minhal Mehdi
#22. It's not about being someone you're not. It's about affecting others without saying a word." #TheImageOfLeadership
Sylvie Di Giusto
#23. It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.
Grimes
#24. I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
Penelope Cruz
#25. He loved that she made him something he never thought he'd been capable of being. Someone who stayed.
Sarah Addison Allen
#26. Be yourself' is good advice, unless you notice that people are always excusing themselves and moving away from you. In that case, try being someone else!
Susan RoAne
#27. Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.
Michael Tilson Thomas
#28. I wasn't even used to being someone's girlfriend yet. I don't know how to be a wife." "Tip: have sex with me, and only me, often." "And there's the rest of my life, having sex with a sinfully hot man. However will I cope?" "I'm
R.J. Blain
#29. What's the best part of acting? It's the indescribable feeling of being someone you are and someone your not, all at the same time. Acting is finding a character that's in you, forgetting yourself, and then bringing out this whole other person. Character is all that matters when you're on a stage.
Chris Coppernoll
#30. An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves.
Olivia
#31. As an actor, it's exhausting being someone else. It's not physically demanding, but it's mentally demanding, if you do the job the way you should.
Brendan Fehr
#32. I love being someone I'm not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else's skin.
Jessica Biel
#33. Never apologise for not being someone else. You're bound to find something you're good at, even if it's only writing stories.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#34. fueled by a mix of fear and self-recrimination. Nest understood. Bennett was an addict, and she viewed everything that happened as being someone else's fault, all the while thinking deep inside that it was really hers.
Terry Brooks
#35. I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for a little while. This is and will remain literature's killer app, the thing most impervious to threat by everything that's not the word.
Ander Monson
#36. Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else.
Suzy Kassem
#37. No one will ever admire you for being someone else.
Kim Dallmeier
#38. The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.
Jo Walton
#39. I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.
Paul Newman
#40. Think positive and work by yourself independently, so you could avoid being someone else's burden.
Saaif Alam
#41. There's nothing to give away. I get so exhausted being what people want me to be that when I'm on my own, I enjoy being nothing to no one. You have no idea how tiring it is always being someone else.
Andrea Speed
#42. Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.
Frederick Lenz
#43. Being someone as not being is worse than being someone as being it.
M.F. Moonzajer
#44. Being someone's best friend doesn't always mean telling them every tiny thing about yourself, you know. Sometimes it means having enough trust to let them have their secrets and still be there for them.
Liz Kessler
#45. I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.
Anna Quindlen
#46. You become very known for being someone's girlfriend, and all of a sudden there's all this hype and buzz for all the wrong reasons.
Sienna Miller
#47. It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else.
Steve Maraboli
#48. I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.
Morrissey
#49. I don't like being under someone elses thumb. I'm very supportive of other female artists, especially those trying to make their own statement ... trying to do what they want instead of being someone else's Barbie doll.
Irene Cara
#50. Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
Oscar Isaac
#51. I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
#52. If we harm someone else, we're inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us to be able to objectify someone else, to deny them as a living, feeling being - someone who wants to be happy, just as we do.
Sharon Salzberg
#54. I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.
Troye Sivan
#55. If your enemy is happy, then why would they be bothered to be your enemy? Being someone's enemy is no fun. It does not add to happiness.
Robert Thurman
#57. I hope that I have gained the reputation of being someone that would do anything. I think that that's an admirable reputation to have if you're an actor.
Joe Lo Truglio
#58. I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different.
Liana Liberato
#59. I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.
Madison Davenport
#60. I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are.
Richard Wagamese
#61. I'm glad to be a role model, but beyond that I'm a flawed human being, someone who continues to deal with my body image and what my purpose is on the planet.
Sara Ramirez
#62. Being someone's first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.
~unknown
Unknown
#64. Being an entrepreneur simply means being someone who wants to make a difference to other people's lives.
Richard Branson
#65. Who you are is more important than what you do. The goal is to bring what you do in alignment with who you are, so you don't end up being someone you don't want to be.
Po Bronson
#66. Sports Jerseys: To wear another man's name on your back is a subconscious slap in the face to who you are. Don't fantasize about being someone else. Put in the work required to rise to the level of your greatest self.
Steve Maraboli
#67. I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage.
Marilyn Manson
#68. I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's 'girlfriend' was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you 'famous' isn't always what you want to be 'labeled' as or known for.
Adrienne Bailon
#69. It is not about there being someone or something bigger out there that you should believe in. It is believing there is something bigger inside of you.
J.E. Gaudet
#70. Read once that being someone's first love is great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.
Toni Aleo
#71. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else ... But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.
John Green
#72. I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.
Abbas Kiarostami
#73. Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.
Janette Oke
#74. I am not good at first or second impressions, and you have to spend some time with me to know me. Also, I don't want to put my best foot forward and prove something, as that is not me. I would rather be me and have you like me for who I am, instead of being someone else.
Emraan Hashmi
#75. My eyes burn with tears, and I'm so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone I'm not and making mistakes that I didn't have any fun making.
Penelope Douglas
#76. As an adult, you think of yourself as being someone else when you're away from your family, but when you come back to your family, you suddenly find yourself back in the exact same role that you always had in your family as a child and as a teenager.
John Wells
#77. Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
Isaac Asimov
#78. But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?
Jena Malone
#79. I'm used to being someone else 10 months out of the year.
Elisha Cuthbert
#80. The two pillars of winning the presidency are being a strong leader and being someone who understands us and our problems.
Nicolle Wallace
#81. People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it's cheating.
Joanna Lumley
#82. If you can only have one, which means more to you? Being someone or making a difference
-Lynny
Malorie Blackman
#83. Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
Charles Yu
#84. I love playing a role, anything that's dramatic. I'm enjoying living that kind of life: being someone else, getting to die, being a temptress. I enjoy being someone else on stage.
Sarah Hay
#85. Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you'll find someone who loves you the exact same way.
Taylor Swift
#86. I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very confident in being single until I find someone who I'm extremely crazy about and who I want to devote my time and love to. Until then, I will just be on my own and I am totally fine with that,
Nina Dobrev
#87. Hell hath no fury like a queen scorned. ...
... That would be the last time he made a crack about being a flamer to someone with a flamethrower for hands. Though he'd really lost it when Raven sang the lyric to Disco Inferno.
J.T. Bock
#88. I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be in military service - it can be anything you're doing with someone that matters. You develop a bond.
Stanley A. McChrystal
#89. No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I will forget that. I want someone to care for me like my dad cared for my mom. And you aren't him.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#90. i don't take breaks. you're either with me or you lose me to someone better than you. i refuse to give you a pass to freely fuck someone else then return to me when you're tired of being fucked over..
R H Sin
#91. The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.
Kiran Joshi
#92. I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.
Ariana Grande
#93. If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and kind do not last.
Amy Tan
#94. The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do.
Oswald Chambers
#95. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.
Donna Ball
#96. On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.
Freya Stark
#97. I can't. I'm not a good influence on him. I keep getting him shot. I swear too much, I don't brush my teeth every time I go to bed, and I never remember to eat a balanced breakfast. You want someone with culture. Poise. A lack of gunfire.
-Toby
Seanan McGuire
#98. And getting licked by someone furry wasn't threatening but being kissed by the non furred male was, which made sense when the furry and non furred were the same person. Wolf.
Anne Bishop
#99. When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely.
Dana Reeve
#100. Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
Harlan Coben
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