I never thought of myself as a movie star. I’m just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top – and never fell off. – Susan Hayward
Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall. – Warren Moon
The writer’s joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought. – Thomas Mann
Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, ‘I will be a comedic actor.’ I just thought, ‘I’ll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.’ – Steve Carell
Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‘Wind in the Willows’ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‘The Wind in the Willows.’ – Terry Pratchett
In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they’d first thought. – Will Hobbs
I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous. – Shalom Harlow
I didn’t want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn’t like me. So I never practiced. – Wynton Marsalis
The thought of making work that’s easily consumed and quickly forgotten – what’s the point? I want my work to be cohesive, to age and improve like old leather. – Tift Merritt
I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn’t much they could do with some of those people. – Tom Rath
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought. – Samuel Alexander
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. – Thomas Babington Macaulay
I saw an ad for an expensive car and got so excited about it, I called the dealer. ‘How are those new cars?’ I asked. ‘They’re fine,’ he said. I thought he’d offer to let me drive it for a weekend. He didn’t. I expected a salesman to call. No one did. I didn’t buy the car. – Stanley Marcus
I was born in North Carolina but moved to a suburb just outside of Philadelphia when I was 5, so mostly grew up there. I decided I wanted to become an actor when I was 8 years old. I literally heard a friend on the playground bragging about how he was taking acting classes and thought, ‘Oh! That’s what I’m supposed to be doing!’ – Sarah Steele
One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off. – William Irwin Thompson
I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn’t know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea. – Tyler Farr
I’m not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ is a very good. I always thought ‘Walk the Line’ was very good, too. – Thomas Brodie-Sangster
I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control. – Stephen Breyer
‘Brave’ is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche. – Susan Orlean
When I was seven and watched an episode of ‘Beyond 2000’ that featured a floating armchair, I thought we’d definitely have one of those by 15, at the latest. – Stella Young
I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian – or just being in show business, is really more accurate. – Steve Martin
‘Forrest Gump’ was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves. – Tom Hanks
I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought, That’s it. I’m not buying the next size. – Valerie Bertinelli
I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don’t have that confidence, why would you go on and do it? – Yoko Ono
And in the middle of one of those scenes, I suddenly felt my heart just open: it was overwhelming, to the point where I got teary-eyed. Never would I have thought anything like that could happen in a love scene. – Sheryl Lee
It’s thought that about 96% of us have visual imagery, and there’s a very tiny minority in the population, some of whom are normal, some of whom have brain lesions, who cannot produce visual imagery. – Siri Hustvedt
