Thinking Quotes

The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.

Why focus on what somebody might think? Nobody talks [on TV] like people really talk most of the time.

To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.

You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.

I had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius."

I always liked to go to Vancouver to shoot, because I think Vancouver's a beautiful city.

So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.

I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work

If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.

I think there's a part of me that feels the need to hide a little bit behind a character.

I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.

After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.

I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy.

Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing a tribe.

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

I think Marshawn Lynch is the most important player in this football game.

I think freestyling is very important. That's the key to the game, if you wanna be in the MC crowd, freestyling is important.

The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.

I love playing a role where I think I'm right and then you learn you're not.

I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies.

Comedy doesn't have to be loud and obnoxious and beat you over the head. It can be this really small detail that, when it computes in your brain, you think, "That's great. That's masterful."

I don't think the women in the TV series are really like that. It's certainly not my personal experience of New York women.

I don't think political correctness doesn't make any difference. Once that's in your DNA, you don't pass an ordinance or pass a law or all of the sudden change your DNA.

I think faith is the one common denominator between everything that goes on at the race track - a faith in Christ.

I feel more inspired than ever, and think that I will finally achieve what I have long been wishing for: a balance of work and privacy - a harmony.

When you can't see any reason for loving a person, you must be loving him as a symbol of something, don't you think so?

I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope.

All humans need love, attention, and appreciation, and those can be very female traits. I feel like they should be male and female traits, but I think that they are more easily attributed to women.

I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.

I think it's important to do great work.

I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.

If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.

To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.

Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.

Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that?