Thinking Quotes

Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.

We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

Sometimes the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So I generally try to do what I think is right. And sometimes I make mistakes.

There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you.

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.

I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward.

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

I think most people that do comedy write for themselves. I don't think there is any other way you can do it, really. Otherwise it would be quite cynical.

American culture is kind of an international culture, isn't it? British culture is a bit more unique. I think funny things are sort of funny around the world, really.

Writing for radio really focuses the mind, because you can't rely on thinking "Oh, just pull a funny face at the end of this sketch." You've got to try to work on the words.

It was very exciting to see Alan Sugar, so I think I've peaked with excitement for the evening, because I'm a massive Apprentice fan.

I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing...

I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up and golf ball and dip it in tartar sauce. So I'm a fisherman.

You don't really think The Terminator exists, but you want him to exist.

I think I was raised by a really good mother.

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.

I decided I like that mode. It's how I think - it's my voice. I like being funny and sad at the same time, or funny and disturbing at the same time. It's my natural voice.

I take lots of vitamins, but I don't think that's what keeps us going.

I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed to have been a lot of alcoholism.

I can't stand family secrets. I think they're such a toxic thing and they always leak out.

I think the Statue of David is pretty sexy. I'd do him.

I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.

I like shorter jokes. I like fewer words. I think the more ideas there are the, the fewer words there should be.

I don't look at the criticism anymore. If somebody calls me fat, even in a vulnerable moment, I laugh to myself and think, I'm doing everything I can, so there's nothing I can do about it.

I think it's important that artists use their voices for so much more than just their talent.

I think all priests should be married.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

I love emotion. I love being in love. And showing that on screen. I think it's wonderful.

I live in the same house I purchased in 1971 for $22,500. I think we need to increase the minimum wage and so all my neighbors can get an increase in their wages.

Women don't like guys who are dangerous. Women just want us to think that because women are trying to kill us.

Jerry Falwell says that abortion and homosexuality are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, Jerry. So maybe you should think about dropping 50 pounds.

I think the people can bash Catholics because they know Catholics won't kill them. Quite frankly, there's some religions out there, you bash and they're going to kill you.

People think it's legalization, it's being sold as legalization-even though it's the opposite of legalization.

My mother used to tell me: "You gotta smile more. Because if you don't smile, the way you look at people, they'll think you're mad at them."

Somedays I think I'm a rebel in my own mind but most of the times I'm a low-key, follow the rules type of guy.

I don't think there would be any pressure playing for my hometown team. It would be fun. I'd just do the same thing I did before and build on it.

I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.

I think I might be one of the only people in America, or at least the only person I know, who saw both 'The Dark Knight' and 'Mamma Mia!' on their shared opening weekend.

A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.

You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.

I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don't want possessions to hold me down.

I really don't think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that's where they hung out with their friends.

I've never been damaged or hurt by press. It's just that I think it's unfair to use your name in media.