Studs Terkel
Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing ... NICHOLAS HOULT If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effec... IRVING KIRSCH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON LEO BUSCAGLIA SIMON SINEK It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you... ANNE-MARIE DUFF Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do,... HARLEY QUINN SMITH STUDS TERKEL It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON HARVEY MACKAY Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make i... SAM CLAFLIN I can put my legs behind my head, but that's pretty much it. An early agent said to me, 'If ... DOUG JONES ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER TILMAN J. FERTITTA EVE ENSLER I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself. K'NAAN We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend... JOHN SAYLES HARRY NILSSON I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. Bu... EDWIN MORGAN The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't... COLIN QUINN JASON RITTER MERYL STREEP If I walked into a restaurant, the other diners would look around and say, 'I hope you're no... VIC TAYBACK ELIE WIESEL I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX FAITH is the foundation you build your house upon. You put up studs of HOPE and walls of DREAMS. Ins... ORLAND FARINAS GREG GRAFFIN We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do y... DAVID HYDE PIERCE DEMETRI MARTIN If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rh... TAJ MAHAL I came back from my ACL injury and won MVP. So, what's a groin? What's an adductor? That'... ADRIAN PETERSON My hope, my real hope, is that whatever you hold in your heart, whatever you truly believe, and you&... JOE CARNAHAN AL GORE CHRISTOPHER WALKEN If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look aro... RICHARD FLANAGAN GEORGE FOREMAN GAYLE FORMAN TERRY WOGAN THOMAS JANE I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career he... RON SANTO The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody t... GAVID HOOD OWAIN YEOMAN MARTIN SELIGMAN As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you... BERNHARD SCHLINK LAKE BELL TIM GUNN I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat. HAROLD WILSON CORNEL WEST CHARLES OLSON You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never d... ANTHONY EDWARDS LADY GAGA SHIRLEY TEMPLE CHRISTOPHER LEE When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Inst... BRIAN CHESKY KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON KRISTEN STEWART When you arrive in L.A. as an Englishman, you might as well be on the moon. People just don't un... BEN CHAPLIN You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live ... AHMAD JAMAL NEIL GAIMAN You don't put your head above the parapet and become a personality if you're an illustrator ... ROBERT INGPEN DAMIEN HIRST You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. ... SALLY SCHNEIDER KEANU REEVES JACK WHITE WINONA LADUKE ED SHEERAN We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, yo... STERLING MARLIN LADY GAGA Well, if you're suspecting your lover is having an affair, it's definitely devastating. It&#... AMANDA SEYFRIED I think that one of the things that we have to recognize is that the longer somebody doesn't hav... KEVIN HASSETT BARACK OBAMA When I used to say I wanted to play at Wimbledon, they used to laugh in my face and say, 'What a... SANIA MIRZA MARIA BAMFORD If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuri... WILLIAM PETERSEN It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written an... PADDY CONSIDINE FRED HAMPTON ISSA RAE I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other ... RACHEL MINER I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're... SIMON COWELL I did some stupid things when I was younger, but I got a lot out of my system. Every time, my mom wa... ELLE KING I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me ... DIANA KRALL And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you'r... CLINT HOWARD JOHN SALLEY I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only a... FKA TWIGS Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in y... LIONEL RICHIE DAVID SUZUKI CHUCK BERRY I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three fee... SCOTT PATTERSON People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's ... ABIGAIL BRESLIN GEORGE LUCAS GARY ALLAN Once you're in the presence of people who have put their lives actively on the line, repeatedly,... BEN FOSTER You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry ... YUL VAZQUEZ ALAN GREENSPAN If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the si... BRIAN SETZER DARREN CRISS MITT ROMNEY
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If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate ... 
I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you. 
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: &... 
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimis... 
Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist. 
As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to... 
People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is... 
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practi... 
One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet abo... 
I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never... 
From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist,"... 
I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversa... 
I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision abou... 
I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature. 
Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny... 
It's strange because you - your life goes so swiftly. You look up one day you're a teenager,... 
I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're ... 
I was born an optimist, as I always say. If I wake up in the morning with a pain in my chest, I'... 
You grow up as an artist in a big city. As James Dean said, you're going to have one arm tied be... 
From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pi... 
If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad ... 
Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I ho... 
I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and ... 
When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth... 
I hope you're representing the devil's advocate. 
To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're... 
Men say, 'I've loved you since I was 7 years old,' and I say, 'Well, you never conta... 
Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cous... 
As a Liverpool fan, I'm an eternal optimist because of what we did in Istanbul in 2005. 
You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but... 
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you ar... 
It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might ... 
You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've be... 
When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h... 
If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by inte... 
Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you wer... 
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a singl... 
I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, yo... 
I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suff... 
We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember... 
You know, you have a lot of people - I've met a lot of people in the past, I've gone to priv... 
I explain to athletes, you're supposed to be a well-oiled machine. You're supposed to be in ... 
If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must alway... 
That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just tota... 
The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing some... 
If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family ... 
If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the... 
When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing. 
I think there's a character one has if you're a chief executive officer. Movies would sugges... 
Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of gover... 
Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits. 