I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true. But I think that the South is changing, slowly but surely.
So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got those documents from. I think they should say where they got these documents because I thought it was a very poor job of reporting by CBS.
When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
I think by embracing your heritage and your history, it just serves you so much more, and you become a deeper and more powerful person by embracing them.
I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.
But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
If it's digital, it will be cognitive. If you think that, you're going to change the way you run a business.
I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.
I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to make your own destiny in this world.
I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.
I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
I think it's true for all of us, if you find yourself doing really well at something, then the pressure is on you to try to improve.
I think I may not be able to retire.
I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems.
Everything in life is a risk! I mean, you walk out onto the street and it's a risk! Don't you think?
I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'
People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
I read my father's books growing up. I thought then and I still think now that his writing is wonderful. It delights and infuriates me in equal measure that he's still that good.
They can because they think they can.
I think people are more savvy about cooking, food and dining. I notice they are looking for more value for their money - not in larger portions but more in terms of healthier, fresh, farm-to-table dishes with a nice presentation.
To go in the water and stare at a shrimp for three minutes and not think about anything else in the world, it's just euphoric.
It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.
I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.
I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. It's not really a big deal to me. It actually drives me nuts. It's always in my face if I don't have a hat on. I might have to get rid of it.
We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
I think the fans are going to expect a lot from me, as they should.
I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.
I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
I am trying to do the best work I possibly can and making movies that will have resonance for years to come. I think if you try for an Oscar or a goal like that, the more people are going to see it as transparent. It's not on my radar. If it happens, great, but I'm happy to continue working as I am, really.
