Quotes About Cynical

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.

Comedian sort of enjoys the darkness because, essentially, he's a thug. He's just not a nice guy.

I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.

Nu eu sunt bufonul, ci societatea monstruos de cinic? ?i naiv de incon?tient? care pretinde c? este serioas? numai pentru a-?i ascunde mai bine nebunia. Eu, în schimb - nu sunt nebun.

Book people aren't exactly silver-lining types.

If I were ever to make an old-fashioned film noir—with a cynical plot full of intrigue, violence, and sudden twists, filmed on dark and menacing streets in misty black and white—I would shoot it in Havana.

Gradually, I came to accept hunger as a constant companion. But this new hunger was different. It filled me with hatred, confusion, helplessness, hopelessness, anxiety, loneliness, selfishness and a cynical attitude toward people.

As for Fiasco, he would be cynical in words, but wholly indifferent in deed. If the whole office were made to go to the mischief, Fiasco, in his own grim way, would enjoy the confusion.

Some good souls found The Candidate cynical. I wonder what they'll think when they read this portrait of the real-life Jerry Brown... This is the book that could force the little fox into the open.

He's got a mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge.

The mind's 'seasons' are conditioned by an organic rhythm; it is not up to 'me' to be naïve or cynical: my truths are the sophisms of my enthusiasm or of my dejection.

What's a practical nurse? One who marries a wealthy old patient.

Americans are cool if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.

Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.

But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

I know 150 percent how deeply cynical and negative I can be. I can be very dark and harsh.

I don't think humanity is the highest form of life that will ever exist in the universe. Maybe that's a bit cynical. But most of the people I know are loving, kind, doing their best.

Raras vezes falava, e em geral quando o fazia era para emitir uma observação cínica — para dizer, por exemplo, que Deus lhe dera uma cauda para espantar as moscas, e no entanto seria mais do seu agrado não ter nem a cauda nem as moscas.

These are cynical times. Some of the romcoms I thought worked best in recent years were '500 Days of Summer,' 'Celeste and Jesse Forever' and 'Like Crazy,' all of which reject the standard happy-ever-after formula.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

I'd never allow myself to imagine winning the World Cup. Cynical me!

Income splitting is a cynical policy, designed by a tired government short on ideas, now reheating old concoctions as their next campaign policy menu.

It was then she said I had grown cynical. I said, that I had always been cynical—she had only never called it that. She had said rather that I was brave. She had called me an original. She had seemed to admire me for it.