Thinking Quotes

At some point in my career, I was thinking, "Why am I not a star? Why am I not Brad Pitt? Why am I not Tom Cruise?"

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.

I don't want somebody as attorney general who thinks he has to rubberstamp whatever the president says.

I think that we should not delay for the sake of delay, but delay until questions are answered.

I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.

I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.

I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

I think I have a newfound respect for what my parents did, to create two players - one who was really good and another who was pretty good.

Tell your boss what you really think about him and the truth shall set you free.

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.

No," I say firmly. "If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.

I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as research.

I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.

I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.

I'm a collector. I think it's great for everybody. Artists like it, they answer positively.

I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It’s basically a mini country unto itself.

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

Theres no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.

I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

I think the balance is between what you can get, what you want and what wants you.

I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story.

It's frustrating sometimes for actors because you slam it out and you have a great time, you think it's funny, and then for whatever reason the movie doesn't come together.

I think more about sounds rather than concepts.

I think because I'm 6'4" and have blond hair and I didn't dress like any other kind of a boy, people just immediately thought I was some kind of circus animal.

Im not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and Im still in the thinking stage.

There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.

I think when you are younger you bounce back quicker from knocks.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.

I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.

I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.

I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it.

I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.

I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's a very healthy thing and it's not a corporate thing.

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.