Thinking Quotes - Page 1094

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.

I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you don't want to be hanging above the maze watching the characters make the wrong choices because it's frustrating. You actually want to be in the maze with them, making the turns at their side, that keeps it more exciting...I quite like to be in that maze.

I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.

I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.

I don't say things straight into the other person's face. I kind of like to make a joke or a remark and make it digestible or just give a little comment that voices my concern, but is not meant to be a critique, but just a comment so that he understands that I am thinking.

It's not possible to be close to God without thinking about the lost. They never leave His mind.

I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out.

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but its a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

I think it is very important to know that we are going to die. Now we refuse the fact of dying. There was once serenity in dying where you had all your children around you in a ceremony and would utter your last words with something like, 'I love the sky'.

The more you work, the less you exist. I believe (at least, I used to believe, because I no longer think this is entirely true) that the artist is like someone carrying a mirror in which everyone can look and recognize themselves, so that the person who carries the mirror ends up being nothing.

I have a very sissy job, where I go to work and get my hair done, and people do my makeup, and I go and say lines and people spoil me rotten. And everyone has that kind of curiosity of how far can you go, how far can you take it. I think it's always good testing yourself.

The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible.

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.

If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.

I shaved away my teeth and made them into little pencil points for nice teeth, that's kind of weird if you think about it. I was a notorious teeth-grinder, so all my front teeth became a couple millimeters shorter.