Thinking Quotes

Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.

Unless you have read and absorbed the best that can be read and absorbed, you will not think clearly or well.

I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don’t think that’s a good trend for the theater at all.

I think of myself as a real writer, not just someone who dabbles in it, so I deserve some credit.

I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.

My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

I don't think there is much American music.

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.

I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.

There have been times in my life when I have felt I was lonely, but I don't think you want to live your life in order to mitigate against loneliness.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

What I think is really great about this movie [42], that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through.

Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life.

I think it turned out to be a pretty good movie [42]. I wouldn't lie to you.

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

I think there's a lot that the larger society could have been taught or can be taught, but I'm not sure - given how unyielding the larger society has been - that much has been learned.

I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.

I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor.

I think I came alive when I started photography.

I’m really boring, man. Like, I’m really dull. And I think people may think that I have this glamorous, fun lifestyle, but it’s pretty dull. But that’s what I like.

I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn't care.

I don't think it feels like a burden. We did not really think of it ["Mary and Jane"] that way. I think it is certainly how we branded. The thing it does is enables us to be a little bit surreal.

I don't think we had a hard time with ["Mary and Jane"]. It is just, it was the constant management of it.

We feel like we are using the East Side to kind of spoof what everybody thinks is cool.

It is just fun to play with [in "Mary and Jane"]. I think our sense of humor tends to go that way.

Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.

I think that in some ways there is no more important thing in my life outside of family and God.

I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which is slavery.

I think that Hollywood is content with condescending to Black people, patronizing them, feeling sorry for us, and I think we're happy to take the pat on the head as a people and take whatever awards.

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things.

I think situations are more important than plot and character.

The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser.

I think it would be interesting to know about the Federal Reserve. I think we should audit the Federal Reserve - it's taxpayer's money that's being used there.

Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.

I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.

[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.

I think that's just one type of leadership, which is the type I have: the need to find a new way and take responsibility for other people.

I think in most companies you're surrounded by the past. You may have a Web site or archives or a lobby that sort of shows off your work of the past. The future is not as tangible.

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.