Thinking Quotes

Sam [L.Jackson] never asks for another take because he knows what he's doing. He gives you what he thinks is the best take, and he does it on the first take.

We [me and Eugene Levy] both try to play the reality of a moment and don't try to impose humor on something where it doesn't belong. Contrary to what other people seem to think sometimes.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

I think we can expect leaders of Muslim societies to cooperate with each other on many issues just as Western societies cooperate with each other.

I think it's hard to talk about the Muslim world and Christian world as blocks.

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

I think Darth Maul has been on a vicious cycle, he's been on a merry go round. In some way he's begging for Obi-Wan Kenobi to take him off that ride.

Everybody is different. I can think of three black men I've dated and they couldn't be more different from each other.

My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.

I think I'm a character actress in a leading lady's body, but the industry doesn't really see me that way.

When people think about Michigan, they usually think about cars.

I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.

I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it's disgusting.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.

I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.

I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.

You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language of the song.

I've lived next door to people all my life. I don't know how cute they think I am.

There's so many different ways to cheat. People think infidelity is the way to cheat. I think it's sometimes far worse to emotionally cheat on somebody.

I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.

I don't understand why there needs to be a love interest to make women go see a film. I think society sort of makes us feel that way - that if you don't have a guy, you're worthless.

I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.

I don't think we are the only planet that has life.

Women should do a lot more fighting. I don't think it's fair that we can't get into a good fight.

I think Benjamin Bratt is the most dreamy... he's dreamy! And I love the fact that he's got this Peruvian heritage; he's absolutely striking.

I think most people have that out-of-body experience when they win the Oscar.

I love humor. I always will fall back on humor. That's something that I think you can't ever get enough of and, if it's done well, it's great. When it's bad, it's horrible.

I think no matter what you do you can't please everybody. You have to ask yourself, "Did I do what I set out to do?"

I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.

I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet.

Mexicans don't think of ghosts as haunting you.

You want to be able to say anything when you do your first draft, because some of that goofy stuff that you think has nothing to do with it is probably where the mother lode is.

I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.

I think there's a rule that once you want to live somewhere, you can't find a job.

I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in my opinion, should get more because you have to do more outreach.

I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.

Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because you needed them to nourish your alma.

I think the erotic is very spiritual, and I never see that spiritual dimension when you look at collections of erotica. That's always missing for me.