Thinking Quotes

For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

People think about, when you sell a million records, "Oh. You must be buying Ferrari's and living in mansions." It was never really like that.

I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

Sometimes I'll be flipping through the channels and I'll see a movie I'm in. And I'll probably stop and think, 'Sure, I'll watch this.'

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.

If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.

Some people think it's because '24' was jump-started by what happened on 9/11. That was never why we made the show. We started production six months prior to 9/11, and we'd already done ten episodes.

I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister.

Bob Sanders wasn't the biggest guy coming out of Erie, Pa., but I don't think anybody would dispute that he was a pretty good player for us.

Unless you have a huge ego, I think it requires a tremendous amount of bravery to keep putting yourself out there, knowing that you will get rejected most of the time.

I think I do have my own technique. I don't like to depend on teachers. So I'm walking on my own way, and I try to be as natural as I can. I think it's the only way to be yourself.

I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.

I think I can try the film world out for a while.

I think as an artist you evoke feeling and change and through that you send a message.

Never bury something deep, baby. Takes twice as much courage to be who you are, say what you think, feel what you feel and let it show then it does to bury it.

I have a lot of responsibilities, but I don't think I've grown up.

I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they think our lives are and go for it.

I think it went Twilight, Welcome to the Rileys, New Moon, Runaways, then Eclipse, so it was like one of those movies between each Twilight movie.

Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.

I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.

I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.

When you move away from where you grew up, I think you tend to have even more pride of where you came from.

Think your own way through things, accept what is true for you, discard the rest.

And what do you think will happen to you when you find life is just too good to be left alone? You'll start living it.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.

I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism.

I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.

Don't you think it would be better to legalize victimless crimes like drugs & prostitution & divert the resources to more important things like the rapes & assaults & things like that?

... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.

I have thick skin. I'm not a baby. Nothing really offends me. If there's something I think might offend me, I don't listen to it.

Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

I think life is a learning lesson within itself. I think you should take the best out of everything that you see and that you encounter and make the best of it.

I'll be honest with you: love is not always what we think it is. It is a roller coaster ride going through this, and it's beautiful at the same time.

I think, men and women are different. We have different challenges.

Modest. When they meet me, they think I'm going to be outgoing, but I like things low-key. I don't like people to think I'm bragging.

Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.

Women who don't think they can get a neat guy hang onto losers because something is better than nothing.

I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.

Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical activity (Elody thinks they should call it slavery instead, for accuracy).

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.