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

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.
David Fincher

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 have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
Claude Levi-Strauss

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 a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.
Amy Adams

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