Even when I'm playing someone named 'Fat Amy.' I'm all about confidence and attitude.
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.
The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.
One of my favorite writers is Chekhov. I love his attitude toward the world. Just accept things for what they are. Don't judge. Be moral as you tell your story, but have no moral at the end. Just look at it.
Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.
Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.
I have a company attitude about my work. I don't like to do just one thing; I like to do a lot of things.
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.
I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.
The only thing you have to have is patience and an attitude that you aren't ever going to give up.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the kind of ambition that drives us. The more I got to know them, and the more time I spent with them, the more I understood that this was a totally legitimate attitude to life, and why not?
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.
I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy.
That's the attitude I approach everything with: I don't want there to be a lot of dressing on anything.
There is no attitude required. The hat brings the attitude. And when people try on a hat they like, it is a bit of fun. It makes them laugh. You don't laugh when you put on a pair of shoes, but you do with a hat.
I've never had any prima donna attitude against me. It's always been very respectful.
I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.
In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.
We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality.
The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.
All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.
If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
People come up to me and say somebody in their family has cancer, and we appreciate what you do, and we appreciate your fight, and don't give up, we love your attitude.
You win football games by first getting possession and then running 3- and 5-yard plays. Not by Hail Mary passes. Common sense, elbow grease, and keeping a positive attitude.
The attitude of 'every nation unto itself' is a destructive one for the future of Israel.
