Thinking Quotes

I think it's very important. I've gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It's something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.

Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster.

There are so many urban pop ideas that are underserved, and I think Hollywood doesn't see us and misses the opportunity to integrate.

I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented.

If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.

I don't want to tell them what to take away from a movie, I think a movie should tell that.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?

Never think that one voice is too small to be heard.

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.

Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.

When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.

Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.

I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.

I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.

My policy is trust, peace, and to put aside the bayonet. I do not think the wise policy is to decide contested elections in the States by the use of the national army.

I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden's election. Business prosperity does not, inmy judgment, depend on government so much as men commonly think.

I enjoy working with Deborah Ann, I think she's brilliant. It's been a joy.

We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.

I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.

You should try to do something if you think you can see your way clear.

I have to think that somewhere on some little island in the Pacific, there's someone's who's great, but I'm probably never going to hear him.

Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.

I don't think, that all my stuff could've been records. Some, maybe. The ones that I really wanted to be records, those are the ones that are going into the box.

I think it's always really important for people to feel like they can connect with you.

[Mannerism is when] you think you have all these great ideas, and none of them are good at the end of the day. But while you are pursuing those other things subconsciously happen.

I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.

I think win the election big, if she can win it, I'd like to see Hillary Clinton 54, 55 percent because I want her to rule the country.

I do think there is a strange idea that the media has that if you tell the public what you think, they can no longer think for themselves.

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.

I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.

In a lot of ways I look at these old photos, and I don't know if I would have been able to communicate with these people on this level if I didn't have a camera. I think I would still be so shy.

I think a lot about control nowadays, and I really want to let go and just be more in the moment.

Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain ... I don't think I want to get married again.

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.

I don't think you can help but personalize a role. You almost play to none of the preconceived notions of it. It's more or less a personal experience and journey.

I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear - something you'll remember more down the road than a shirt.

I think that people see that Sandra Bullock has an ability to laugh at herself and you just don't find that too often.

As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals weren't lofty. No. I just wanted to someday quit my paper round and that was about it.

I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

I don't think I'm prepared to give away my technique to Great Britain. Are you crazy? All I can say is there was a ninja and a fire truck involved, and a great deal of coersion.

And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off.

When you're in the center of something, on a ride, I don't think you realize what it is until it's over.