Being naive I think is how you construct new music. When you start thinking too much what is it you’re doing? You’re just making an album. You’re not doing brain surgery. If you take it too seriously you start taking yourself too seriously.
My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong opinions.
For a number of years, I’d been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I’d always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.
You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.
My mum and dad are quite hippyish, so I’m pretty naive. I take everyone at face value.
I have 16 years in Dallas. I would love finish it off there. But I also understand and am not naive enough to think that… it may need to be somewhere else. I think that’s how this business works. So you have to be open to that idea, for sure.
I’m always amused when people point out that Benjamin’s naivety about the publishing process is just so unbelievable in Starborn #1 since, of course, no aspiring writer in reality could ever be so naive.
‘The West Wing’ was really important for me for a lot of reasons. It was the first thing I did when I got out to Los Angeles. I’d just finished school, and I was so naive.
I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I’m not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers.
I’ve always been bothered by systems that don’t work for everybody. It doesn’t mean we’re all equal. I am not naive about that. But we should have a more inclusive society.
To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive.
While I am grateful for the friendships and relationships that I have with my Republican colleagues, it would be naive to pretend that those friendships will change the way that major policies are enacted in Arizona.
My mom is really naive – she thinks that because she is honest, other people will be honest too. That’s not the way it works.
I’ve never been scared, but I’m very naive.
One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump’s base.
I’m no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I’m not satisfied until I get the answers.
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
As a kid, I was naive. One thing I did have a dream of, though: I had a dream I would make a kung-fu movie.
I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That’s an indication of how naive I was.
I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and for the rest of my life I would be writing books and collecting royalties. Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published.
The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
Just after Kim Jong Il’s death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il’s rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.
It’s one thing to be innocent and another thing to be naive or willfully ignorant.
I am not naive, and I do realize that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. I am also fully aware that when segregation ended, we didn’t all live happily ever after. No one can convince me, however, that life in America would be better if blacks and whites had stayed separate and unequal.
I love to feature children and young adults as real people – flawed, naive, virtuous, venal – but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn’t exist without them.
The one thing I’ve always felt – and I might be naive – is that if you nurture a particular situation regarding relationships at a very young age, that you may have a better chance to keep a group of players together.
Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they’re treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic – an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.
Los Angeles is not going to be a big naive step for me. I know it’s tough out there, but I do think there’s a place for Irish actors in that market.
When I was 17, I had a small part in the movie ‘Election,’ which shot in Omaha, Nebraska. I was really naive at the time; I really didn’t know what a big deal it was.
The West Wing’ is an extremely naive entry into politics and political thinking.
My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.
For the longest, I was slightly naive when it came to the real world. There were a lot of fears I was afraid to conquer that were just holding me back from standing up for myself or taking chances.
What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people’s houses. It’s naive to think you won’t carry anything into your life.
There’s a two-tier justice system. And anyone who denies it is either naive or in denial. This is what the reality of America is. If you have certain privileges, if you’re from a certain socioeconomic status, you have a certain skin color, the odds are in your favor.
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit.
Maybe Hillary Clinton was right in 2008 when she called Barack Obama ‘naive’ on foreign policy.
Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things.
We were kind of young and a little naive when we first started out in the business.
The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didn’t think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it.
I guess I always had made some assumptions about what it would be like to work in a tech company, and some were right, and some were wrong. I had a lot of, looking back on it, now naive ideas about how companies build their brands, and a lot of those notions I ended up realizing were kind of wrong.
The common liberal orthodoxy that living close to the land leads to eco-awareness is historically naive, considering that Mesopotamia, northern Africa, and the Mayan civilization were ruined by people who had lived there quite a long while.
I never had to really worry about anything and I guess I was naive.
When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.
When I first started out in Telugu cinema, I signed anything and everything that came my way. I was 18, was immature, and it felt like a good idea that ‘Oh, they are paying me a good amount of money.’ I was young, naive; I had zero ambition, and honestly, it wasn’t my calling.
I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.
Harvard prides itself on its diversity – economic, racial, social, geographical – but it remains intellectually segregated. It’s not what conservative commentators seem to imagine – a bastion of liberal professors force-feeding radical opinions to a naive student body.
On the videos for ‘1234’ and ‘My Moon My Man’ I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I’m not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.
What I do have is an appreciation for the fact that I’ve been very blessed and fortunate with timing, in getting opportunities that I wouldn’t have otherwise gotten, if I weren’t from a football family where my grandfather had so much success. I’m not naive enough to think otherwise.
My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.
I think a lot of times we don’t pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.
I’m not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I’ve got a right to say what I believe.
