The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself

I honestly think that my sincerity lies with my country and each and every individual who knows me will agree with this fact.

Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it?

I do think there will be more Japanese companies expanding out of Japan, and there will be more cross-border flow from Japan.

I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell." (Jace)

A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.

Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

I'm passionate, I'm driven at my job and I also am compassionate with people. We all think we can save somebody that we love.

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.

This could be it, I think I'm in love. It's love this time... It just seems to fit, I think I'm in love... This love is mine.

Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

A lot of girls think they have flaws that really aren't flaws. I've never met a girl who was just so secure about everything.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

I think true romance is dry schizophrenic... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.

I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.

You know what I hate about working? Bosses...The very idea that ANYONE could be my boss, well...I think you see the conflict.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

I sometimes think that there is nothing but time, that what you see and what you feel is what time looks like at that moment.

I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

You're not so bad. You'll get there. You should have seen Alec do flips at first. I think he kicked himself in the head once.

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.

What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy.

I don't dislike the way I look. I think I look fine. I think I look extraordinary for 88. And I've got energy. Out of my way.

There's so much living to be squeeze into the cracks of one little day. You can make someone laugh, smile, hope, sing, think.

We are the producers of our own thinking. Thought is not something that happens to us, but something that we do to ourselves.

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