Thinking Quotes

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.

I've been to some funerals where there's a lot of laughing - it's about celebrating their new journey. I can't think of anything. There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

I always want to look unattractive, it's more fun. I like playing opposites, people who aren't attractive who think they are pretty. That's always interesting to me.

I'd meet a new filmmaker that I'd always loved, and I'd think, "Great! I'm in the right place." It's a weird way to look at it, but I don't care as long as I'm able to make stuff that I want to make.

I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

I think that as you get older, you learn to live in yourself more securely.

I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough.

I think it's a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking I really want to write a novel.

I think everything in life is a balance.

I just think I have always had a good attitude about everything and never got ahead of myself. No one wants to work with a jerk.

People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.

For me, the food is most excited in ['Top Chef Mexico'], I get to try it all. My mouth waters just thinking about it.

I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile.

I think the best things happen when you just let go and see what comes in. I find that that's always the most satisfying.

I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.

I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.

You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

I don't think more mega-summits is the way to secure effective implementation.

I don't feel I'm very present in each moment. I feel like every moment I'm either thinking about something that's coming down the road or something that's been in the past.

In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.

I'd like to have kids at some point. I think I'll have a family someday.

As I was reading the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] I kept thinking, "Sweetie, you are dancing as fast as you can!"

I think Hillary Clinton's been's depressing democratic turnout.

I think because I can be sad, and I can be lonely, my gift would be trying to help other people feel less lonely and less sad. Because that's what I understand.

I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity.

I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.

He thinks it's his day, and when you think it's your day, it usually is.

There's no such thing as an open draw. At least for me - I mean, obviously for Roger Federer, I think every draw feels open for him - but for me there's no such thing as an open draw

A lot of people think that you easily get roles because you do music. I mean, you could knock on the door faster than anybody, but it doesn't necessarily get you in.

I think all the roles I've played really center around either the great conflict or how the great conflict affects the people that I love. I've been cast often as a hard-nosed, hyper-confident guy.

So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie.

I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

I think everybody gets their recognition sometime down the road, and I have never been one to seek it. Besides, it has been that way throughout my career, especially in college.

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

I went down and spoke to some of the people who lived in the neighborhood in Miami. At the end of the day I think my connection with Tarell [Alvin McCraney] is what helped me the most.

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.

I think he's the best quarterback in this game.