Has Beens Quotations | Page 3

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.

How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.

I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.

My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.

I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.

There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.

I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.

I don't have to teach anymore, I don't have to work anymore, God has been really good to me.

I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains.

I am not a high-tech techie, but I have been told that is not possible.

Business is at the heart of America and always has been.

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so.

Everything about my politics has been about the future

How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?

A lot of the things I've enjoyed the most and that I think have been the best are ensembles.

Maybe everything we've ever done has been for love.

I have been an Anarchist all my life,

Some of the best stuff in all my movies has been improv.

There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on

There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.

You have been forgiven, so act like it!

I'm definitely drawn to things that are new, so something specifically for me would have been fun.

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

Women have been funny for years.

I'm mainstream. Always have been.

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

At Twitter, mobile is in our DNA ... For us, it's all about mobile, and it always has been.

Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.

Comedy has been so good to me.

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

I'm definitely one of the best. Always have been; always will be. I won't accept anything less.

Some roles have been with me forever

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.

I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it.

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

I have been drawing all my life.

Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

What has been is no more. Change has come.

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since '87. I've been riding for both of them.

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.

My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.

There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.

I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.