Thinking Quotes

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!

I like to dress for my shape - I think it's important for women to do that generally - it makes me feel good.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.

Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us?

He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.

Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it.

Yes, go on. Leave. You're always coming and going. The rest of us are stuck here. Do you think he'd still love you if he knew who you are? He doesn't really care—only when it suits him.

The fact that I am as lean as I was in 2008, I'm stronger than I was in 2008 I think I have the potential to be as fast as I was.

I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke.

I cannot and don't really want to control my mind, soul, or heart when I write and must recognize that I don't think about the readers at that moment of writing.

Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.

I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.

I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.

I think people respond to truthful, simple narrative, and the more you try to dress it up to try and do something else, the harder it is for people to relate to.

And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?'

I really do think that if you're doing your job right, you're never gonna be what the other actor was, but you can be influenced by his intelligence and his choices.

I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.

Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.

I ain't thinking of tomorrow, tomorrow thinks of me like a garcia, bulk of money on tha counter, I told her, baby I see you as my cashier

You can't ever stop thinking something quick enough. Something that hurts always gets the knife in too fast for you to slam a lid on it and shove it away.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

Always think about your future with a smile on your face, because your thoughts will eventually become your future.

I don't care what people think of me now, so why would I care when I'm dead?

I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain.

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

I like to think of myself as a very passionate person, and as very determined.

When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.

In the '30s, every day was an event. And, as much as I love that idea, I think nowadays it's nice to have the differentiation of when you dress up and when you don't.

I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale.

There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.

For me, work is so satisfying and it's giving me so much, it's nurturing me so much, that I think it sort of makes up for the sleep depravation.

So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That's usually a good sign to me.

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

It's a masterpiece [The Exorcist]. This is an honor. I know you may not think so, but it really is. How many movies in our lifetime? This is an honor.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.

I think some of the most important things we read about other people occurs from being able to read their faces and their eyes and their body and those kinds of things.

I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.