Thinking quotes

“As any other form of Art, cinema is only important if used to open doors to discussion and to talk about the things that you don't want to hear. Otherwise it's just a mere object of vanity.”
João Costa Menezes

- Patrick Bateman: "When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things. One part wants me to take her out, talk to her, be real nice and sweet and treat her right".
- David Van Patten: And what did the other part think?
- Patrick Bateman: "What her head would look like on a stick... ".

Christian Bale - Patrick Bateman
Bill Sage - David Van Patten

“I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.”
Lance Henriksen

“It takes a rare thing, a turning point, to free oneself from any obsession. Be it prejudice or hate, or, even love.”
Max von Sydow - Nels Gudmundsson

“- Sam: Why is it what you just said strikes me as a massive rationalization?
- Michael: Don't knock rationalization; where would we be without it? I don't know anyone who could get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex.
- Sam: Come on, nothing's more important that sex.
- Michael: Yeah? Ever...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Berenger - Sam
Jeff Goldblum - Michael

“- Ian Donnelly: If you immerse yourself into a foreign language, then you can actually rewire your brain.
- Louise Banks: Yeah, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It's the theory that the language you speak determines how you think and...
- Ian Donnelly: Yeah, it affects how you see everything.”
Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly
Amy Adams - Louise Banks

“I am paid not to think.”
Clark Gable

“The more I think about things, the more I see no rhyme or reason in life. No one knows why some things work out and some things don't. Why some of us are lucky and some of us get...”
Gina McKee - Bella

“I dunno what to tell you, Marge! I don't think about things. I respect people who do, but...
I just try to make the days not hurt until I get to crawl in next you again.”
Dan Castellaneta - Homer Simpson

“No thinking - that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!”
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“When you're really happy, you don't sit around thinking.”
Joel Schumacher

“There are days when I manage not to think of anything at all. Not the money... or the murders... or Jacob. Days when Sarah and I try to pretend we're just like everyone else... as if none of it ever happened. Those days are few and far between.”
Bill Paxton - Hank

“I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.”
Bruce Lee

“Ariel, please! Will you get your head out of the clouds and back in the water where it belongs?”
Kenneth Mars - Triton

“- Archibald Cunningham: Think of yourself a scabbard, Mistress McGregor, and I the sword. And a fine fit you were, too.
- Mary: I will think on you dead, until my husband makes you so. And then I will think on you no more.”
Tim Roth - Cunningham
Jessica Lange - Mary

“There's always a chance, Doctor, as long as one can think.”

Barrie Ingham - Basil of Baker Street

“- Daniel Miller: Where were you? I'm just curious.
- Bob Diamond: I'd tell you, but you wouldn't understand.
- Daniel Miller: Don't treat me like a moron. Try me.
- Bob Diamond: I was trapped near the inner circle of thought.
- Daniel Miller: I don't understand.
- Bob Diamond: I told you...”
Albert Brooks - Daniel Miller
Rip Torn - Bob Diamond

“You can never understand anything by agreeing, by making definitions. Only by turning over the possibilities. That's called thinking. If I say I know, I stop thinking. As long as I keep thinking, I come to understand. That way, I might approach some truth.”
Michael Emil - Professor

“- Dr. Peter Venkman: Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it?
- Winston Zeddemore: Wonder what?
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Whether she's naked under that toga. She is French. You know that.”

Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman
Ernie Hudson - Winston Zeddemore

“Just because I talk with an accent doesn't mean I think with an accent.”
Giancarlo Giannini - Alberto Aragon

“- Dalai Lama, 14 Years Old: I am not your son. And I've never thought of you as my father. You've been much too informal to me for that. Do you ever think about him? And what do you think about?
- Heinrich Harrer: It's not a conscious thought really, Kundun. He is always there. When I crossed Tibet he was with me. When I came to Lhasa he was...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk - Dalai Lama, 14 Years Old
Brad Pitt - Heinrich Harrer

“You have to get inside their mind. You have to know what they want, need. You have to think... like a mouse!”

Christopher Walken - Caeser, the Exterminator

“It's important to think. It's what separates us from lentils.”
Jeff Bridges - Jack

“I was very ill last summer. For a while, I thought I was a goner. I woke up one night in my hospital bed, and I saw, standing there, a tall man, wearing a white robe, with a long white beard. I said, 'Who are you?' He said, 'I am the HolyGhost.' I said, 'Where are the Father and the Son?' He said, 'They're out of town.' I'm not a religious man,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Harry Ruby

“No life appears rewarding if you think too much about it.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley