I learnt about being physically fit, captaincy, and the things that really matter when it comes to being a leader and a batsman.
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.
I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
I guess I just do being a man different than some.
You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.
Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.
I enjoyed being a teenager.
I think being a teenager is a difficult journey in and of itself, but being transgender makes it that much harder.
Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult - those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going?
YA, I feel, is so accurate to what it is like be a teenager and the realities of being a teenager and being in love.
Not being afraid to be wrong - I had to learn how to do that.
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
Being afraid to tell the truth because of the projected consequences, whatever it may be, shows a lack of faith and an abundance of fear.
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
Being alone is very difficult.
