Thinking Quotes

Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

It's more fun to think that there are other worlds.

I'm a sappy mom now. I didn't think I would be. I thought I'd be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.

I dreamed about these moments, and I think I hoped I would have them, but you don't know. So when the lucky break hits, it's like being Cinderella and hopefully midnight doesn't come.

I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.'

Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.

I'm a huge romantic comedy fan and have been in this business for 17 years and I think for all 17 I'd hoped and dreamed and wished to some day be in a romantic comedy myself.

Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.

I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.

If my mum thinks I'm acting like a diva she'll soon tell me off... She'll cut me down to size!

I think I hate snow, downright hate it. There is something stupefying in it, a kind of 'You must be worse before you're better,' and down it spins.

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

I don't believe in coincidence. I just think that all things work together for good.

Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

I think it's healthy to say that the American people now have direct access and that we have sufficient confidence as people in our own ability to judge, to make intelligent decisions.

I don't think I've ever had a woman yell that at me, but women have yelled mean things at me as well.

I think this whole Billy Bush thing just pushed women over the edge because it's so visceral.

A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.

I think that the Internet is really cool because a lot of young feminists don't feel like they have to reinvent the wheel.

I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest.

I think my biggest fear is dying. Although sometimes my biggest fear is not dying. But yeah, I think health stuff for me is more what I'm afraid of.

We support Hillary [Clinton]. We're saying that strongly. "I'm with her," I don't think that we can be any less strident. She's the best person for the job.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.

I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones

I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.

I don't think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor.

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.

As more Americans meet Mitt Romney, I think they'll see beyond the handsome exterior and see not just a good salesman, but a thoughtful (and, yes, conservative) leader.

Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted out a master plan for following my dreams.

To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.

Thinking big is only one part of being a successful entrepreneur.

Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.

The Lord loves holiness and transparency, and I think that if we are to worship Him properly and lead others to do the same, our day to day lives have to reflect that.

I read Stephen King a lot and I've actually played two roles. Delores Claiborne is my favorite, I think, of any film that I've done.

I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.

I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.

I'll be honest, there's a part of me that does think I'm held to a different standard than my contemporaries and peers, and it's a little frustrating.

I think a Celebrity Survivor would be great.

Pretty much everywhere I go, I'm pretty much thinking I'm going to be bounced. I am still the outsider who snuck into the party. I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.