Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren't controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent thinking. We know we shouldn't believe everything we read. We realize the media is skewed, we know it's owned by a small group of people, we realize it's biased, etc.

When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

I think about a lot of my favorite directors, and I think about their first films, and I have great admiration for the earthiness of those films.

As a comic and as an actor, I think you've got to be partially crazy.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

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!

When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what's important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

I was honestly more talented in soccer than in basketball. I don't think I'd have gone anywhere in soccer. But I think I was more talented in soccer.

Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they said or did.

Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.

I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.

I like seeing what the comedian thinks is funny, not just what they think I'll think is funny.

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.

The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.