Thinking Quotes

I wouldn't want to try to make a living as an actor. I think actors... I give them a lot of credit for what they go through, but putting myself on the line like that would make me crazy.

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me.

Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.

Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.

I'm just trying to think what other sequels there were. There was the James Bond movies and not many. I think sequels have become a recent idea of franchising.

I think that if one's role doesn't correspond to what one says, if one's life doesn't correspond to what one preaches, if one is not true to one's people, someone else will come as a substitute.

It's hard to imagine, but we cant think of HIV/AIDS as being somebody else's story. It could be any of ours.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.

I think I'm more prolific in the songwriting.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

Never think you're better than anyone else, but don't let anyone treat you like you're worse than they are.

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.

I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people healthy.

Thinking is sometimes too intense, so once I start feeling pain, if it is not too much pain, it eases my mind.

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move.

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

I came back once or twice a year to visit my family, and then I would take off again. In the beginning, I think everybody thought I would get over it and get it out of my system. And I never did.

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.

I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

Beyoncé built her f–king foundation from the bottom. I think that’s the exact career every female artist wants to have.

I don't think I could do a reality show, no.

I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.

So remember what others think of you depends a lot on what you believe about yourself, what you think you are, what you think about, what you say and what you have proven you can do.

The more you travel, the more well-off youll be, I think.

I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

I think that grace and love always rattle people.

I actually think there is hell because we see hell every day.

Despite a lot of people thinking that everything gets more and more difficult, I always assumed that people are going to be "Oh, at last you buckled, you're trying to be commercial."

It's very hard to predict what people are thinking.

Your reputation is what influences people to think, feel and talk about you the way they do.

I don't think any of my kids would have a good word to say about me. I think they deny that they even know me. At school, they pretend they are Anton du Beke's kids.

I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

I think religion is best when it's reduced to a one hour television program.

I really think of it - acting and writing and producing, whatever - as shipping. You gotta ship. Put the widget together in the easiest, quickest way possible and ship the product.

Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.