Bellamy Young Quotes

It's a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, 'I get to play the First Lady.' It's just fun to say.

If I could have anyone's mind for a day, I really can't think of anyone other than Einstein.

I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.

I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.

I foster a lot. Not humans, animals.

When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.

I am a fosterer of animals.

I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform and availed herself of any opportunity she could in the mountains of North Carolina in the '70s.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.

The smallest act has repercussions for the universe.

Love is a true unconditional space to me. To love someone or to be loved is to be seen, and I think, gosh, as humans, all we want is to be seen, to be heard, right? To be valued. To be respected. But mostly just to be held in a safe, unconditional space.

I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.

I want to find a man and have a family.

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.

You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make it so that you could do it. It was magical. I had a lot going on, as you do when you're 17, and didn't necessarily capitalize on all of it, but it made me see possibility in a way that I hadn't before.

I have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in.

I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It's everywhere. It's all around us all the time.

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.

Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.