Thinking Quotes

I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor.

I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.

To me, more importantly, I want to make films that I believe in, that I find value in that I think folks will like.

The Bible, contrary to what people think, actually puts forth a strong case for no free will, no free will.

Neither of us are workaholics. I think the key thing is to accept that if you only exist through what you do, then you become what you do, and this is very wrong.

Coming from Paris, I'd really like to live in Rio. I think it's gotten better. It's not as violent. The economy is better. The middle class is rising.

I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.

I think American audiences like gangster movies. It's part of the culture.

I've never played a master thief. And I think I am one.

If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.

I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.

You can't compare any job or any friendship or anything to another. I think if you do, it's kind of a recipe for disaster.

I think television is always changing. It's always shifting.

I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies.

Anytime I think about a product, I think about my family and friends. Would they be proud of me if I put this out?

Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.

People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.

I think people can have a panic attack where your heart is racing, you get shakes and jitters. But you can also feel disconnected. You know what I mean? I can feel depressed.

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don't think it's honest.

I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds when I graduated from high school. I was a mess".

I don't think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors.

I think that's why August [Wilson] named her Rose [in "Fences"]; I really do. She's a rose in her sweetness and her kindness and in everything else, even her anger towards the end.

No matter what, people don't think of me for glamorous parts. I'll go to an audition or a meeting in a pretty dress, and they still think of me as depressed or embattled. Hopefully, that will change.

I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.

Where I trained at in Florida, though, they didn't have Jack in the Box. There were a couple of nights where they were all I could think about. But, it worked out for me at the combine. It paid off.

I think that Walter De Maria's Lightning Field, Michael Heizer's City, and Charles Ross's work in Star Axis New Mexico , all three will last for a millennium.

You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.

I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

In terms of picking album titles or picking track titles, I think very carefully on all of that because that is the entrance point.

I think my generation was one of the last to remember the first days of the internet.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

I think voice is like a good wine. If you work it well, it will mature.

My interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.

I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.

I think white artists have a responsibility to be not only naming white supremacy, but to be using their power and privilege to support artists of color.

What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write the right sentence, nothing feels as good.