Thinking Quotes

A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.

I think it's so important as an actor that you hang on to your own inner compass, because so many people want to guide you - 'This is what you should you be doing'. But I want to do different things.

I guess I'm a little different. I think being unique is different.

Friendship is higher than love. Sometimes, it's less glamorous, or less passionate, but it's deeper and kind of wiser, I think.

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.

I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.

To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

I'd love to find a small movie that someone would sign off on me to do. I have no aspirations to do a big studio film because I don't think anyone would let me.

The writers are very good about misdirection and changeups, and that's what's great about it. We always think we know what's going to happen and then they throw a curveball that you don't see coming.

You just believe in positive thinking. And you can do a lot more with the body than you think you can.

I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want

Everybody's crazy in some way and everybody's weird, and that kind of makes us all the same in a lot of ways. We're not alone, we just think we are.

I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.

I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.

I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.

I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.

Whenever I think of Milwaukee, I think of the American League. Hmm, Boston, Atlanta, weren't they the Browns, too?

On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.

Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.

You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change

Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn’t expect much from her re-unions.

[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

Its going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.

I still think punk's around. It's been pushed into the mainstream and it gets harder to draw that line between what's pop and what's punk.

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.

Planning your own coming-of-age experience may wither you prematurely, but just think of it this way: If you can get through this, childbirth should be a breeze.

You have to start thinking a little differently as an actor.

I think the most attractive thing for me when I meet a guy is confidence and him being comfortable in his own skin. I like someone who doesn't need approval or validation.

I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.

I realize that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.

There's all different kinds of people, but I don't think it's that unusual that once you get like a little power, you get to do your weird thing even more.

When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.

Maybe I am too traditional, but men feel important when you ask for their help instead of thinking you can do it all on your own.

A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.

I think being a Texan - we sort of have that extra fire in us as a breed. I just felt like from day one I had something to say and I wanted to make sure people heard me, and it's worked.

I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.

Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.

I think we hear a lot of talk about college, and we don't hear about early education.

I think pickles are cucumbers that sold out. They sold their soul to the devil, and the devil is dill.

We [Democrats] are looking for things that we think would make a difference, improve the country, and enjoy some bipartisan support.

Im not a person who wants to die with my shoes on. I do not think I can be immortal. Maybe my deeds will be immortal. Not me.

Every day I'm thinking about change.

How long can interest rates stay negative? Think about this. Not only are you lending your money to governments, but you're paying them interest for the privilege of doing so.

I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.