Thinking Quotes

Truth is often terribly thin, don't you think?

I think [Donald] Trump is going to try to be fairly low key, but the problem is that I don't think he is going to very well with [Hillary] Clinton attacking him fairly relentlessly for 90 minutes.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.

Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

I grew up, especially as an actor thinking that I had to move to New York to be a good actor. But after a while you start to live the world a little bit and you start to appreciate where you're from.

When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.

I think those little laundry detergent capsules are an amazing thing to have.

I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.

There are a lot of people who are eager to assign blame. I think we're [USA] eager to try and find some solutions. One thing that would help would be comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.

I think some industries are so far behind the rest of humanity, in the way they see characters and cast shows. Once those walls get broken down, it changes everything.

I think guys understand love a little better than girls.

I don't think I really understand girls now.

I see movies all the time that manipulate you by playing a high note on the piano or some string instrument, and suddenly you're crying. I'm sick of being told what to think.

You think that if you are the best actor, you deserve the most or if you are the biggest star, you deserve the most. That race just isn't important to me.

I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I'm still proud of it.

I'm not all that demanding, I don't think. My family might think otherwise.

A lot of people think Utah is a bad place to play, but hell nah.

I think girls like vampires because they are mysterious and they really don't know what they are about. I think a lot of girls are attracted to that.

I know my life is full of awkward pauses, and I think it's hilarious.

Acting is one thing, but actually trying to change the world and the way people think to make people's lives better? That's the stuff I'm most proud of.

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

I think it was Mark Twain who said, “Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.

I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.

Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy

A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not as good as you think you are, at least not yet.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole

Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.

I think whether you're a movie critic and have seen a million movies, or you're just a normal popcorn movie watcher, you can tell the difference when someone is just laying it on too thick.

You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.

My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.

I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.

One thing I'm most proud of, in my movies, is that I think the performances are super-strong, but that's not all me. I think part of it is casting appropriately.

The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's what makes music real.

As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.

You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It’s the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I’m alienated from society.

We're no longer dealing in the world of the real in a truthful way. We're interacting with each other in shiny homepages. I don't think that makes for honest communication.

If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what we say to matter?

That's one of the things about comedy - I think it works best when it's contextualized, as opposed to kind of an island of cleverness.

I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases.

When you try to put everything into music, there's no room left to try to make you think we're cool. We know you think we're cool.

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

The Syrian government is weak today in 2017, but it's been gathering strength. And I think it's likely that, in the next few years, you will see the Syrian government retake much of Syria.

Someone on the internet referred to me as 'that horrible little man who's replacing Rob Lowe', which is hurtful, because I think of myself as a delightful little man.

I think if you stand me up next to Rob Lowe, it's like we represent two different species.

I think most directors subscribe to the principle that less is more, and the best direction is the most concise direction.