- Nov 07, 2020
Mind Quotes
What occupies the mind, for better or worse.
Quotes about the "mind" here range widely — a lifelong search for hidden meaning sits alongside a startlingly honest admission that resentment has occupied more mental space than friendship ever did. For related reflection, see Body quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you can save one body, and one heart and soul and mind, then it's a worthy cause and a worthy venture.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I'm trying to learn my lesson.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020