Christian Slater Quotes

I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do. I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.

There's not ever much of anything going on in my head.

For me, fiction isn't very cathartic. It can be a broad, long catharsis, but it's a whole different thing - whereas music is physical. Essentially, it goes in through your ear. Fiction is cerebral, necessarily. It can do emotional stuff. But they don't really compare - not for me.

Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in Tolstoy or even crossword puzzles is unlikely to appear, no matter the urging by well-intentioned social workers or people like me who write books about it.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

I like when something makes you think after you stop watching.

My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.

My main goal is to really make people think, and laugh while they do so.

I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.

I get a fizzy thing in my brain, like a nice glass of wine, and I want to know facts and I want to understand.

I like when my mind is being stimulated and challenged, and I'm forced to be creative.

I think I was just constantly seeking mental stimulation from anything I could get.

People say Wu-Tang makes you think too much. What's wrong with thinking?

For adults to enjoy something, they need to have intellectual stimulation, something that's related to real life.

I have an overactive mind and I find that doing exercise clears it.

I like movies as a viewer that challenge me to actually think rather than spoon feed everything to me.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.