"I think anybody would have to be without common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time"
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The engine of the quote is its moral framing. Aliens aren’t primarily a scientific probability; they’re a check on ego. Calling disbelief an "ego trip" flips the usual hierarchy where skepticism reads as sophistication. Here, skepticism becomes provincialism, a failure of imagination masquerading as rigor. It’s a neat inversion: the truly "common sense" position is cosmic humility.
The subtext is also about loneliness and scale. "I think about it all the time" turns an abstract argument into a recurring private obsession, the kind that surfaces in late-night interviews because it’s safer than politics and more revealing than small talk. Coming from an actress, it doubles as a cultural artifact: performers trade in stories and other selves. Believing in other inhabited worlds is, in a way, believing the universe has more characters than the ones we already know - and that we’re not the lead.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Lloyd, Sabrina. (2026, February 17). I think anybody would have to be without common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-anybody-would-have-to-be-with-out-common-113368/
Chicago Style
Lloyd, Sabrina. "I think anybody would have to be without common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time." FixQuotes. February 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-anybody-would-have-to-be-with-out-common-113368/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I think anybody would have to be without common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time." FixQuotes, 17 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-anybody-would-have-to-be-with-out-common-113368/. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.




