It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious.
I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.
When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there.
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.
It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.
If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else.
Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.