All Quotes

I don't think of Home Depot as romantic, but I do think the Christmas wonderland they put up during the holidays is magical. That is what Home Depot is to me, and that is the only romantic thing about it.
‐‐ Betty Who

I don't think of investing in Cuba after all the hardships of the people there as a profit-making thing for us. I have thought of it as revitalizing the island.
‐‐ Jorge M. Perez

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
‐‐ Sam Mendes

I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.
‐‐ Isabelle Adjani

I don't think of it so much as the shows I did or the film sets. I mean, sometimes you'll get a nice location, but it's more, 'Who am I meeting on a day-to-day basis?' Often the rehearsals are a lot more fun than the show itself.
‐‐ Joshua Sasse

I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.
‐‐ John Hughes

I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.
‐‐ Dave Grohl

I don't think of literary novels as self-help documents, although literature undoubtedly saved my life when I was young, enabling me to disappear into all manner of stories, to recognise feelings that I felt alone in.
‐‐ Bill Clegg

I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
‐‐ Robert Caro

I don't think of my characters as bumbling. I think that trouble is what drives a novel, both big troubles and small troubles, and whatever people try to do in life, there are a series of stumbling-blocks in the way, and I think that makes for interesting reading. I think of them as doing their best with the roadblocks that they're given.
‐‐ Tom Drury

I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring on the page. I don't actually think of myself as having 'created' any of these people.
‐‐ Lisa Unger

I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
‐‐ Val Kilmer

I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'm not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.
‐‐ Bryan Greenberg

I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.
‐‐ Mary Lambert

I don't think of myself all the time.
‐‐ Norman MacCaig

I don't think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that's frozen in time. I'm more interested in transitions.
‐‐ David Rockwell

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
‐‐ Bette Davis

I don't think of myself as a comedian.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny. I started doing stand-up to add another level to my game. I feel that I'm a young rookie with a veteran's skill.
‐‐ Marlon Wayans

I don't think of myself as a critic at all. I'm a reviewer and essayist. I mainly hope to share with others my pleasure in the books and authors I write about, though sometimes I do need to cavil and point out shortcomings.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.
‐‐ Sutton Foster

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
‐‐ Conrad Hall

I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.
‐‐ Elizabeth Strout

I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.
‐‐ Frank Lowy

I don't think of myself as a kind of celebrity, but wherever I go, people know me; they greet me.
‐‐ Ricardo Salinas Pliego

I don't think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don't think of myself that way. I'm not trying to belittle what I do, but I think of myself as a dancer first. I'll always be a dancer.
‐‐ Judith Jamison

I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.
‐‐ Paul Auster

I don't think of myself as a model. I'm genderqueer, and I've got tattoos.
‐‐ Ruby Rose

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
‐‐ Frances McDormand

I don't think of myself as a movie star. I'm a movie worker. I come from a railroad family. I come from the corn.
‐‐ Bill Moseley

I don't think of myself as a New York actor; I think about this guy who's an actor who happens to be from New York.
‐‐ Jeremy Luke

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.
‐‐ Jenna Bush

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
‐‐ Oprah Winfrey

I don't think of myself as a powerful person.
‐‐ Anna Wintour

I don't think of myself as a powerful person. But I do use the platforms I have to make a difference in the world. Anyone who has a position where they can make a difference should use it.
‐‐ Shari Arison

I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

I don't think of myself as a role model.
‐‐ Treat Williams

I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.
‐‐ Jennifer Doudna

I don't think of myself as a role model, but I do feel like, for women out there who are trying to figure out who they are, the most important choice to make is to live a life that's true to who you are inside. And let your ideas and your heart and your mind drive your fashion choices.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can.
‐‐ Lily Cole

I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
‐‐ Barry Williams

I don't think of myself as a romantic person; I'm kind of more rough and tumble, I think. The things I'm drawn to are outdoorsy, I only get dressed up when I have to. I'm drawn to women who are into the same type of thing. If you're going to call it romantic, I'm very spontaneous. That's probably the best thing I have going for me.
‐‐ Paul Walker

I don't think of myself as a singer really.
‐‐ Graham Coxon

I don't think of myself as a spiritual person.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

I don't think of myself as a trendy person at all, and if I'm anything, I'm probably contrarian.
‐‐ Alfred Enoch

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.
‐‐ David Duchovny

I don't think of myself as a writer.
‐‐ James Patterson

I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.
‐‐ Michelle Gomez

I don't think of myself as an American Master. I've just been making a living.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.
‐‐ Ben Saunders

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.
‐‐ Chris Ware

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
‐‐ Natalie du Toit

I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.
‐‐ Curtis Sliwa

I don't think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess I'm quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. I'm certainly not the quiet reflective type.
‐‐ Ben Daniels

I don't think of myself as doing good works. It's not, 'Oh, I must give these poor people a voice.'
‐‐ Lenny Abrahamson

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.
‐‐ Mel Gibson

I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.
‐‐ Steve Carell

I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspicious of fun. I never quite know what that is or how to deal with it or how to generate it. That's my fault. I know it's a burden on the people I'm with. It's tiresome.
‐‐ Hugh Laurie

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
‐‐ Charles Barkley

I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.
‐‐ Ashley Olsen

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.
‐‐ Christian Slater

I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
‐‐ Val McDermid

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

I don't think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist.
‐‐ Nicole Holofcener

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.
‐‐ Freeman Dyson