I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.
Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.
I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.
I get unhappy doing things that I'm not passionate about. Because I feel like I'm squandering this incredible gift I've been given to finance films. As soon as my name alone was enough to make this happen, I vowed to myself that I was going to work with directors who were changing cinema, doing something important, you know?
I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.
Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
I am always honest, and I am not the sort of player to say, 'Oh, I love Arsenal' and then sign for someone else. I think if I was unhappy, I would say that, but I'm not. I do love Arsenal.
It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain.
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
There are definitely some folks in my hometown who are unhappy with the way I portrayed my hometown... But I think most folks realize I wrote this book not to disparage the hometown but to really try to understand why so many kids who grew up like I did struggled.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?
I'm always going to be looking for something artistically or whatever. I think that's part of being driven, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm unhappy.
I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what's great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family.
When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.
Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.
I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.
Nowadays, I only review books I really like. It's cowardly, I know, but I figure it's not my job to make people unhappy. I'll leave that to the professionals.
Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
Anyone who has to write an obituary for me one day will probably say, 'She did absolute depths of agony really well.' I'm not, however, an unhappy person.
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
