“People who think they know usually stopped thinking long ago.”
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Thinking Quotes — page 989 of 4756
“People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.”
“I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it.”
“I've never like had a system or a program, I always think that I don't know how to act. I'll adapt to any director because I don't really have a set way that I do things. If a director hires me and says, "I want you to get started right now and do this research, this research, this research and I want you to have every line memorized before you ever show up for the first day," then that's what I'll do.”
“I think the biggest reason that actors are complete a-holes as soon as they become famous is because they forget that this a job. They think that it's about them, and it's not.”
“I think women can be just as sexist. Women can be misogynistic, too - more so, they have more freedom to do it.”
“I don't like going out that much. When I'm out, I think about my couch.”
“The tabloid that said that I dressed up as a medieval, like a sexy medieval something and that upset me more than the dating rumors that have been circling around that were fake. If somebody thinks I'm going to dress sexy to a costume party, they have another thing coming.”
“Like backstage, I just peed like every 3 seconds. I think yur staff thinks I have diarrhea.”
“I just think it should be illegal to call someone fat on TV... Because why is humiliating people funny?”
“"Our first conversation was on the phone. I was in the bathtub, and I had to tell him that I was in the bathtub because I was afraid he would think I was, like, playing in the toilet when he heard water swishing around. [...] Then we had breakfast in Santa Monica, and I spit egg inside of his mouth when I was talking.”
“The changes that happened in my life from doing these movies are so permanent that I don't think I'll ever really say goodbye, it'll always be a part of me, the Hunger Games.”
“It's so easy to think that this [celebrity] is reality; that people are lining up outside just to write down what I have to say. That's not real; that's weird.”
“I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me.”
“I'd like to think that I have a plan, but you can't really pick what scripts you're going to get or what movie is going to come along.”
“I think the most takes I've ever done would probably be maybe 10, on like a big studio movie where you can do those. But after a while it's like, "It's not gonna get any better, this is what it is," the light's just gonna dull from your eyes. I think the more you do it, the less the actors listen to each other because then you start memorizing the other person's lines and you start getting bored.”
“I run into grounded people all the time. Given, most of them are behind the camera. But I definitely by no means think I'm the only one.”
“I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.”
“Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.”
“Sometimes I think marriage licenses should be like driver's licenses. They expire after a number of years, and in order to keep going you have to renew. Wouldn't that be kind of genius? It would force you both to look at the relationship, and if it's not working, the marriage would expire so you could go on your merry way, or on the positive side of it, you could look at each other and say we really want to renew. What a way to keep it fresh!!”