Thinking Quotes

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.

That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."

I think one of the luxuries of being a filmmaker is that you can ask questions but not necessarily have to answer them. Certainly, if I was a politician I'd need to come up with some answers.

Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.

When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.

The world is a very big place and there are many wonderful people in with ideas you haven't thought about. Talk to them, find out what they're thinking, so that you can be the best person you can be.

Our conscious minds are rapidly overwhelmed with the few tasks that they attempt to manage. That's why our unconscious minds have evolved to handle so much of our thinking.

I think you can move to everything, but with some music you just want to sit still. Like Claude Debussy - I couldn't dance to that.

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic.

When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.

My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung.

When I got my job on Parks, it was so dreamy, kind of unfathomable. I didn't think a job that excellent could exist for me.

My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.

But I think people see 'Wallace and Gromit' as something akin to an elderly couple. These two know each other so well. Nothing can split them apart.

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.

Why onions? Because they're cheap, last a long time, can be lit any number of ways and force me to think about what happens when the form turns away from the light.

I would eventually like to write and star in my own stuff. I think I have a good comedic sense, so I'd like to follow that road. I don't know what the future holds, but whatever I do, I'll commit.

I don't want to follow comedians because I don't want to see what they're thinking about, 'cause then maybe I won't stumble across a thought maybe I had about the same subject.

I think Elvis Presley will never be solved

People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't think.

I have a big personality, and I've been attracted to women with big personalities. I think that is usually going to happen when you have big personalities.

I think bullies are very lonely people. I always tell teenagers not to bully others because it's unacceptable. We need to teach students to value themselves and to not put others down.

I think it's not just about how you perform on the field, but how you hold yourself off it.

People think I get this free wardrobe but, sadly, that's not the case. I sometimes sell my unwanted clothes and shoes at car-boots so I can buy more - that's my guilty secret.

I think Amy is a really difficult example. With any artist, none of us understands what it's like having the world's media scrutinising everything you do.

He could ball with the crew, he could solo But I think I like him better when he dolo

Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.

I think boys are yucky, and that's it. Nothing more to say.

I think sometimes the fashion world isn't even about clothes anymore; it's about this 'in' crowd, and I'm not into that.

I think big, get cash, make em blink fast

I feel like I'm a designer, not a pop star. But if certain people think of me like a pop star, then the only thing I could do about this is dye my hair black and cut it short maybe.

Tryna forgive you for abandonin me Prayin but I think I'm still an angel away

I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.

I really, really don't think that, outside of maybe some pink wigs, [that] there's anything that separates me from every other woman in America.

I always wanted to play in a pink boot ever since I was young. I never saw anyone play in a boot like it. I think it's an outstanding colour and looks amazing.

I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation, who have no church background at all.

I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.

I have said before I think it would be really good to have a woman in the final two but that's a matter for the parliamentary party.

I think honestly that Michael [Gove] came to this decision[Prime Minister candidate] very late, that he needed to step up.

I love film, and I think it's so important for kids to be educated about films and real life subjects that films cover.

I think it's kind of written in stone that men are supposed to have strong feelings about age, but I've never really thought about it.

Look, a lot of people don't think that the way that I live my life is a real thing, that it exists, that having a broad spectrum of sexual orientation is even possible.

I get told I'm too good-looking for a lot of roles. They don't write roles people would think I'm supposed to play as often as they used to - the rom-com pretty-boy storylines.

My husband is very proud of me and what I do. Which I think is really sweet.

Fans don't lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don't.

I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.