“I think we really have to ask ourselves, are we really using to children to promote ourselves?”
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Thinking Quotes — page 885 of 4756
“I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.”
“I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.”
“I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.”
“I think whether you've got children or not you're just more aware of others as you get out of your 20s.”
“I think when a man sees a woman who knows what she wants it can be scary, but it can also be tempting.”
“Dance was one of the things that led me to acting even though I say I fell in love with acting fairly early on and its true but around 16 and 17 I got heavily into dance but I think I just came into it too late and I was never going to be really great at it so I let it go and the dance led to more acting classes.”
“Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.”
“I think every time you take on a new role, you're trying to help find that voice and you add your own bits and pieces along the way but with Noah [Baumbach] it's already done.”
“I was never completely destitute. I think I borrowed money once off a friend, but I've always been quite careful with my money, having come from not much of it.”
“Who are we when we leave our families? Who do we become? What are we capable of? That's something that never leaves us. It begins at that point in your life when you leave the nest, and I don't think we stop wanting to explore that question.”
“I don't know that any woman could ever not think about that at some point - even making the choice not to do it and getting to the place of peace of choosing not to be a parent, there would have still been some struggle in between. I'm not a man but I don't think it would occupy their minds as much.”
“I think in my 20s I was just all about having fun.”
“So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.”
“I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg.”
“I think I have better taste now than I did then.”
“Sometimes they come to you and it's a small role, so it's about the experience and the journey and mixing with people you know you will learn from. Or sometimes it's a scene in a movie that you think, 'I just have to play this person.'”
“People think they will wake up one day and I'll be gone. But I'm never going away.”
“If it makes Tom Cruise happy, I don't care if he prays to turtles, ... And I don't think anybody else should.”
“Life and love inspire me. I think reinventing yourself is vital to your survival as an artist and a human being. I know it’s cliché to say about me at this point, but it’s true. My curiosity definitely is the driving force in my life and career. When you stop learning, engaging and growing, you’re dead.”