Thinking Quotes
I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.
When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today?
In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.
In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.
Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.
People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.
For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.
There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.
I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.
I danced in a Lifetime film. We shot in Canada and I got to work with a lot of the dancers who do So You Think You Can Dance, Canada.
I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?
In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.
Botox, I think, is poison, I would never put it into my face, and I'm needle-phobic. I spend a lot of time keeping my face out of the sun and taking care of my skin and wearing make-up.
I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.
I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.
I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.
I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.
I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.
The fact of the matter is, if you have to have a process, I think, to figure out how to make everything work together, you just don't get that. But maybe there's a way to do it.
I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.
I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.
I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.
On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ... I can't do it.
One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.
Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.
Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.
I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.
I fiercely protect my privacy. I just don't think it's everyone's business to know every little detail about my life. That's just the way I've handled myself.
People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And people are looking for hope and inspiration. I understand that.
I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn't see a way to get out.
Since I met him ten years ago there hasn't been a day that I didn't think of George Burns. And I didn't think of him again today.
if you don't think that all life is improvisation, then you haven't been paying attention. Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.
I don't think I'm good in bed. My husband never said anything, but after we made love he'd take a piece of chalk and outline my body.
Mel Gibson's father doesn't think there was a Holocaust? Great. I don't think there's a movie. We're even.
I don't think there'd be a Tina Fey now if I hadn't tried to look good in the beginning.
I like my politicians and my judges and my lawyers to be simple. I think if you worry about where your hemline is you're really not concentrating on the world crisis.
I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny. And when you're very, very happy, you're not very funny. You're just happy. I'd rather be damaged and funny.
Everyone thinks Angelina Jolie was the first celebrity baby hoarder, but she wasn't. Before Angelina there was Mia Farrow. Mia had an entire farm full of children. I think she got them at Costco.
