Quotes About Attitude

The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.

My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.

I don't have a beef with Texas. I just don't think Texans know anything about basketball and they don't have a sense of humor. Texans take themselves too seriously.

Lots of people say we should fly less, heat less, and put on a sweater. But it's not going to happen. People are happy to say that for other people, but not themselves.

Get mad, then get over it.

I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.

If people are cool, then they are not stressed. I pity the fool that don't be cool.

I have a theory that people are either born 'yeses' or 'nos'.

My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

I maintain that I never expect anything, therefore I'm always pleasantly surprised.

You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

They say the people most affected by the credit crunch are pensioners - well, let go of the handbag then, Nanna.

Inevitably, when directors work with me on a set, they say, 'This isn't what I was expecting. I thought you were going to be very serious.' But I like to stay loose and have a good time and not take myself too seriously. I think, otherwise, you get in your own way.

If you're old and you lose, they say you're outmoded. If you're young and you lose, they say you're green. So don't lose.

The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn't be nicer.

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

I'm thick, actually. But it doesn't bother me. I think I'm really clever.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.