Thinking Quotes

For me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look?

I think I'm too much of a control freak.

dealing with loss and heartache doesn't make you stronger. It only makes people think you are.

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.

Edmonton is Canada's answer to Omaha. Solid, unassuming, and surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. It's a place that makes you think of sensible shoes.

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

I believe it makes us all even closer believe it or not. We were all pretty close to begin with but I think it's done even more for us. It truly is a brotherhood and I'm glad to be a part of it.

I don't think I'm going to go into Iron Man. I mean, I can't say that I won't go into something like an Iron Man franchise.

If people want to talk about anything I do, they can give it any name they want. As long as they're talking about it, I think it's great.

I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.

I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent and killing me; that doesn't really scare me because I don't think that's going to happen to me.

I don't know what's wrong with me, but like, the second I stop working, I have a panic attack, so it's good for me to be thinking of projects ahead of time and lining things up.

I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

I think the idea that women can stand up and be strong and still be seen as beautiful and sexual is kind of cool, and I would like to see more of that.

Whole class of filmmakers, they're all graduating to a new level of filmmaking, which I think is awesome.

I'd like to think I'm actually a nice person in real life.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

Oftentimes Westerners don't really understand fully the values of this particular culture. And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq.

I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself

I'm surprised I wasn't sent to therapy in the childhood to be honest. I think my parents must have gotten a kick out of it.

I love singing and I think I have a really nice voice, but I don't think I have an unbelievable singing voice. I think I have a great character voice.

You go in thinking you have to do this all by yourself, and what I learned was no, when you hire great people, they do so much for you.

I think that I'm always open to any kind of project.

I think now I'm just excited to continue directing and find stories that inspire me and bring those to the screen.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

Men seem to think that Page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn't impress me at all. Not in the slightest.

To think someone can go out and sell something about you is really disgusting. I'm much more careful now.

I think Nine Inch Nails was a really big one for me, when I was 18. They really inspired me to start making my own music.

It's really hard not to think too much. If I try to control the sled too much so that I have perfect lines, I'm really slow.

The key to skeleton is to find the line, and I think I spend most of training figuring out where that sweet spot is.

I think the best thing for us is to just write songs that we like.

I love doing horror with comedy twists and I think it's a really fun genre.

When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful are strengthened merely by the light of our attention.

It's now time to organize and move forward. It's time for deep thinking, reformation of the Democratic Party.

I think this was a change election, as David Axelrod said. It was a primal scream by many who feel that a discredited elite failed them, economically and politically.

Those poll ratings go south, I think you have a Republican Party ready to begin different kinds of hearings than [Jason] Chaffetz is unwilling to have.

I think it is a good thing that the United States will now be a party to the talks, to resolve a metastasizing crisis in Syria, which will destabilize Europe.

I'm surprised John Lewis didn't invoke the suppression of voting rights in this election [2016]. I still think it's one of the most underreported stories.

I don't want people to think they have to like me because I'm on TV every other minute.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation."

I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don't do anything.

I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.

I was not even allowed to mention the name Madonna in my household - just because I think the '80s and '90s were so Madonna-filled. She was going through so many evolutions at that time.