Quotes About Joy

I think I've lost 3lbs - I'm very, very happy. I thought of it as work and a spa.

The best part of my job is that it really isn't a job at all, it's a labour of love. Every night is different, the people that you work with are all tremendous individuals.

I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.

I use ordinary soap bubbles, the dime-store stuff, two wands and a plastic straw.

As anyone who's done any acting will tell you, if you haven't got a malicious evil streak, it's such a joy to let one out.

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

Since I was two or three years old, I remember always being with the ball. I would see kids playing on the street, and would join them.

It was a normal childhood, like the childhoods of all children my age: going to school, playing in the street with friends, spending time at home with my family.

Street football is the greatest thing in the world. There is just you and your friends against the rest.

I started playing football in the streets.

I bask in the affection I get on the streets. I recently went into the kitchen of a restaurant to meet the cooks. They were people I didn't know, but what a joy it was meet them! Such experiences wouldn't happen if I were doing only one kind of cinema.

It doesn't matter where we are. We can be marching down the streets of New Orleans, or we can be onstage in front of 15,000 people. As long as I know that I'm about to put my horn to my mouth and play some notes, that's what I most look forward to.

If you dance alone on the streets, people might call you crazy, but when so many people dance together, it's a party.

I remember I'd be playing in the streets with friends, sometimes barefooted. I'd come home with sore feet, but wanting to do the same the day after. That passion made us keep playing. Playing in the dirt was our daily joy.

I believe dancing is the best stress reliever.

The moment I see my daughter's face, I am instantly happier, my stress just disappears, and I forget everything else.

Singing is kind of like stress relief and everything just kind of makes sense when I'm doing this.

We need to laugh and laugh loud because this is the only way to handle stress.

I'm here to make people feel like they can release stress, have a good time, be positive and live life.

That's what it is to be a grandma. All fun and no stress.

My daughter Stacia was born when I was 31, after I was divorced from David, and she was my gift to myself. She was just a joy because I didn't have the stress of a male irritating me, and I vowed that I would make absolutely certain that between her and me there would be a clear line of communication at all times.

Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.

I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will all scale themselves magnificently to fit the production.