All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you’re a brilliant actress. Actually, all you’ve done is look like crap.
I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you’re wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.
I’m not gay – everybody thinks I am – but I dig ‘The L Word.’
Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.
The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.
The U.S. has always understood itself to be united around political principles and not around culture, whereas the nations of Europe have a much more traditional conception of nationhood that is connected to romanticism, which thinks of religion and culture as ingredients of nationhood.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.
Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander’s boss to get that changed.
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
Everyone thinks I’m singing falsetto, but that’s my normal singing voice.
Everybody thinks I’m, like, a bad boy. I’ve had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.
The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother’s love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.
Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.
When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you’re a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can’t drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
I have a problem with a lot of men’s fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.
Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I’m moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he’s dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate.
It’s official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that’s what everybody thinks he said.
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.
From what we’ve heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They’re positive. They’re good. He thinks he’s got a good vision for America.
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
The world chooses to think what the world thinks.
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.
President George W. Bush, in his now-rare public appearances and interviews, still refuses to acknowledge he did anything to help Iran. But it doesn’t really matter what he thinks.
Just because someone or something thinks differently than you do, it doesn’t mean that it’s not thinking.
I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.
Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.
If you’re an attractive guy, everyone thinks you’re successful just because of the way you look. I hate that.
I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn’t hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn’t affect anyone – come on.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
My daughter thinks that only her mum is on the television. Every time she sees the screen anywhere she’s like mummy! Because we don’t let her watch the TV.
When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.
A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend.
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I’ve been there twice.
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
With my face, everybody always thinks I’m so young, this little guy.
Everyone thinks I like to sleep. It’s not that I like to sleep, it’s that I don’t like to get up! There is a difference.
Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here’s mine: Everybody’s gonna make mistakes.
The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science, the very latest controversies, are worth reporting on. How often do you see headlines like ‘General Relativity still governing planetary orbits’ or ‘Phlogiston theory remains false’? By the time anything is solid science, it is no longer a breaking headline.
My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.
Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
I think every person is different in coping with pressure; every person thinks differently. For me, sometimes it is difficult because people expect so much of me.
Magoo’s appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he’s not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.
Hollywood is a strange place if you’re in trouble. Everybody thinks it’s contagious.
Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn’t got money.
I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares – like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.
When you make the right decision, it doesn’t really matter what anyone else thinks.
A man is always better than he thinks.
But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.
Maybe there’s a little girl who thinks she can be an Olympic athlete, and she sees all the things I struggled through to get here. Yeah, I didn’t walk away with a medal or run away with a medal, but I think there’s lessons to be learned when you win and lessons to be learned when you lose.
I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don’t need it, don’t want it, don’t require it, does not fill up my soul. It’s about her, not about the rest of it.
Anyone who thinks they can write the perfect comedy that everyone will love is a fool. I can only write what I think is funny and hope that there is a likeminded audience out there.
If my mum thinks I’m acting like a diva she’ll soon tell me off… She’ll cut me down to size!
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
