Thinking Quotes

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

I would think you an utter fool if you did not doubt me, warrior. Instead, I am forced to respect your uncommon intelligence. Now what, do you suppose, should I do from there?

But crazy people never think they're crazy. You're sane just by the virtue of the question.

I also want to try acting - give it a shot - maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a way you have to act.

Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.

I don't think it's easy to be married to anyone.

I don't think I've made my favorite film yet. But I loved 'Bamboozled.' 'Bamboozled' to me is off the chain. It's definitely in the ranking. I loved 'Bamboozled.'

What is the thing that Will could do to make me not love him? That would make me abandon him? I can’t think of one. I'm sorry. Except if he did something bad to the kids - now we've got a problem.

I'm looking forward to playing against all of them. I think all of them are great, they all have experience and they all are starters. It's going to be fun to go up against them.

If you think you are big, you will become small. If you are willing to become an absolute nothing, you will become larger than creation and Creator.

When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to step outside yourself for a minute and think, 'This is surreal.' But I try not to get too bogged down in that.

I am not what I think I am. I just am.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

I got into the business all by chance. I really enjoy what I do now, but it wasn't always a huge dream of mine. I think I always had thought about it growing up, though.

I was very spiritual as a kid. I think I felt and thought about things a lot more deeply than most of the other kids my age. I wanted to help people.

Hardest emotion? They're all pretty damn hard; I don't know really if there's one specifically, but I do think, I don't know what's happening or what I'm feeling when I'm actually listening.

I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.

I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.

When somebody's really good, they're not just thinking about their job.

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.

I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.

I really like world music. I used to think it was simple but it's far from that.

I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song.

Yes. I didn't think there were any witnesses, so I guess I'll have to kill you too.

I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business.

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.

I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.

He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future.' 'I'm thinking about my future,' said Sonny, grimly. 'I think about it all the time.

I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?

I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books.

Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again." "Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?

You're a very odd man," said Bert. "I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles.