All Quotes

I think of myself as an actor.
‐‐ Oliver Platt

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.
‐‐ Tom Selleck

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.
‐‐ Barry Humphries

I think of myself as an ambassador of the arts. In my heart of hearts, I know the world would by a more peaceful, tender place if we were more moved by the poetry around us.
‐‐ Tim Seibles

I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.
‐‐ Harrison Ford

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
‐‐ Kate DiCamillo

I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
‐‐ Jack Black

I think of myself as an Indian comedian, but I've had British and American schooling. I always had this feeling of not fitting in anywhere, of observing situations from the outside.
‐‐ Vir Das

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
‐‐ Jim Morrison

I think of myself as an Olympian. I have had a dream since I was a very small child. And because I have parents without whom I couldn't have realised that dream.
‐‐ Danielle de Niese

I think of myself as an underground name. Quite a cult comic.
‐‐ Rhys Darby

I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe.
‐‐ Helen Mirren

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.
‐‐ Laurence Fishburne

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

I think of myself as being quite affable, approachable, fairly easy to get to know.
‐‐ Louis Theroux

I think of myself as just another consumer.
‐‐ Roelof Botha

I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get. They think I'm sassy. Apparently, I think I'm nicer than I really am.
‐‐ Cecily Strong

I think of myself as living so much outside borders or old categories that I choose as my leaders U2, the Dalai Lama, Vaclav Havel, Sigur Ros, Desmond Tutu, Barack Obama, and the girl next door. By definition, in short, my leaders are the ones who think in terms larger, and more intimate, than any country.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.
‐‐ David Duchovny

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices.
‐‐ Robert Webb

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.
‐‐ Oscar Niemeyer

I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.
‐‐ Marian Seldes

I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery.
‐‐ Lily Allen

I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.'
‐‐ Rebecca Wells

I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in many different forms. I think of myself as the kind of person who writes, rather than as one kind of writer or another.
‐‐ Samuel R. Delany

I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say.
‐‐ Francine Prose

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.
‐‐ Geraldo Rivera

I think of myself as still being about five.
‐‐ Demi Moore

I think of myself as the eyes and ears and voice of the reader.
‐‐ Robin Givhan

I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors.
‐‐ Alexandra Stoddard

I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.
‐‐ Kim Gordon

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.
‐‐ Joan Allen

I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.
‐‐ Stewart Butterfield

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.
‐‐ Peter Gould

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.
‐‐ Jerry Seinfeld

I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.
‐‐ Kevin Bacon

I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.
‐‐ Sarah Brightman

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.
‐‐ Dawn French

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.
‐‐ Spalding Gray

I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
‐‐ Carla Hall

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.
‐‐ Nicole Krauss

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
‐‐ Ian Mcewan

I think of OkCupid as an online bar; a place where singles can go, have fun with each other and in the process hopefully meet new people, some of whom might turn into a romantic relationship.
‐‐ Sam Yagan

I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.
‐‐ Margaret Carlson

I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
‐‐ Nate Lowman

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
‐‐ Kenneth Noland

I think of Paul Feig as the Scorsese of comedy. He's the best at what he does. I think people just trust everything that he's got to say.
‐‐ Jason Statham

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
‐‐ Jim Jarmusch

I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative job, and he submitted to that. And in that submission, he became a great leader. You could say that the only person who is safe to lead is the person who is free to submit.
‐‐ Richard Foster

I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had an impact on me very early on, probably even more than Disney. I think that's what made me interested in animation: His work.
‐‐ Tim Burton

I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

I think of real estate as a little bit like cooking or like art.
‐‐ Jerry Speyer

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.
‐‐ Anne Graham Lotz

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.
‐‐ Angel Haze

I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard