Thinking Quotes

I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.

Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.

You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.

I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.

I think listening to people is helpful.

So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.

My husband says, 'Roseanne, don't you think we ought to talk about our sexual problems?' Like I'm gonna turn off Wheel of Fortune for that.

I think I should be here alone to rethink the world, I do. I want these lesser humans gone.

I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards or crack pipes, but they have some really funny lines.

I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find myself regurgitating almost unconsciously.

I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don't I? I think you only get three.

I’m not a politician. I think that uniquely qualifies me to become president of the U.S.

Even though the stuff Im doing right now is relatively easy, I think in the future I would love to play things that have nothing to do with me and thats good.

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

Actors are always weird about acting with their spouse or their boyfriend or girlfriend, but more because they think audiences will find it boring.

I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.

The more I experience, the more I see that so many things in our future are planned for us, I think that what isn't planned for us is our attitude, and it's our attitude that can change our lives.

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified.

I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4.

What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch.

I don't think it negates your skills as a parent if you're homosexual.

I remember thinking, 'I don't know if I can do radio.' I never even listen to it.

I think that that's always been a real talent of mine is to be able to spot somebody who has that thing that is so non-definable, that thing that I wish I possessed.

I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.

When I started out, some women comics were jealous of other women comics, thinking, "If she gets "The Tonight Show," I can't." My philosophy always was, "If she did, I can too."

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.

I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in two hundred years, and if America doesn't stand up, we're in big trouble.

The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.

I do dream about Afghanistan. I wake up and think I'm still there.

I don't think you should go into politics until you can stand on your own two feet economically, if possible, and you know enough about the world.

I don't think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don't play.

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.

Johnny English is someone who really means well it's just that he's not as good as he thinks he is, and I think that maybe that's the British male in a nutshell.

I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.

[Maigret] is more internal. I think if we made more of these I might let him out a bit.

At the moment, I'm certainly not thinking 'never again', but neither am I thinking 'I can't wait to play that part again'. I'm somewhere in between.

Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don't think it means that we should overlook feminism as having nothing valuable to contribute.

I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.

I think you should aim for the stars - and hopefully avoid ending up in the clouds!

If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.

I think music all the time.

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.