Quotes: Being

My paranoia never ends, but I haven’t been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

They think I’m being serious when actually I’m a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I’m constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor’s lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren’t old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don’t make eye contact, the guys won’t come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.