Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow

But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.
Peter Bogdanovich

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.
Geddy Lee

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
Mason Cooley

Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.
Shimon Peres

Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
Neil Young

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.
John Deacon

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.
Laurie Lee

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.
Sandy Duncan

I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.
Andrew Eldritch

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
Tia Carrere

I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
Ben Kingsley

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
Tobey Maguire

I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.
Janeane Garofalo

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit.
Duncan Sheik

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
Godfrey Reggio

I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul.
Renny Harlin

I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.
David Gest

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
Johnny Carson