Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.
I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.
I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!'
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!
We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else.