Thinking Quotes

I'm really interested in being a player. I'm not pursuing TV at all. If TV pursues me, that's different. I don't even want to entertain it. I think that helps me as a player.

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

I think everybody focuses on race, but it's about a ton of things, and I just see these things as all interrelated and all interwoven in a weird way.

I think, and a lot of that has to do with where I grew up in California; [status] isn't something I think about that much.

It's all the same for me, how I teach, how I write, how I think.

I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes up when we're all together. It's so fundamental to how I think.

There's this line between propriety and how we really speak and how we really think. And I'm just trying to have fun with that stuff.

Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So it's nice to have some recognition.

But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues - being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives.

I think his deepest quality is empathy.

See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.

I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us all out of the troubles that we find ourselves in.

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.

I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more...

I think empathy is really important for pleasure.

I think Americans are always going to care more about Americans than about Mexicans.

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.

I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.

I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.

What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90's? There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.

Unlike the phone system, the Internet has no Ma Bell or FCC to mandate new policies for the entire system. Not even Microsoft can make us all upgrade our routers. I think.

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

When I start thinking, all is lost.

When investing, I'm not against risk. If you take no risk you must expect a low return. Just don't let anyone fool you into thinking you can get a high return with low risk.

I don't think [Russell T Davies] sits up at night worrying about canonicity, except for the times when I'm pretty sure he does.

John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism. Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health.

I think it's more important to try and make a good film than give a good performance.

I was actually thinking about starting like an app where you can watch videos of me carrying Daniel [Radcliffe in Swiss Army Man].

I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.

Michael Caine is so happy. Happy and healthy. I think he enjoys life. I think he's 82 now, and I have no clue if I'll be working at that age.

Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.

I think I was almost 12, so I knew who George C. Scott was, but if I could work with George C. Scott now, I'd be so pumped.

I think it was a lot of trust as well [between me and Daniel Radcliffe]. If we didn't have that, it could be a very painful film [ Swiss Army Man] to go make.

I think it is the general rule that the originator of a new idea is not the most suitable person to develop it, because his fears of something going wrong are really too strong... At age 69.

Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I'm pretty sensitive to that. But I don't dare say 'I know how women think.

I mean Ally McBeal was sort of the closest thing I can think of to kind of being a comedy-drama but that had its own kind of style that meant it got kind of big sometimes. But it was a great show.

The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about.

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

I don't think I gave a good enough performance to be nominated for it. I thought I gave a fine performance, but those things are supposed to be about giving an extraordinary performance.

I don't think film actors need training, really.

Think like a customer

What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ".

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling really guilty for not writing something today.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough.