Quotes About Attitude

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

I try to look at things in a positive light, but not everything ends up turning out positive or perfect.

I hated turning 40; the whole idea of it stank. But once I got through it, I was fine.

I don't have any fear of turning 30. But maybe that's because I know I'm never going to be 30 mentally at any point in my life!

Turning heel was so much fun for me. I was so over being a babyface.

I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music.

If I miss a shot, make a turnover - move on to the next play, don't compound the mistake by getting down.

No one turns up at Turf Moor thinking we are a soft touch.

I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

There are times when a film turns out differently from how it was narrated. But I don't look at it as a bad thing.

Pay attention to how you think and speak, and if it turns out that you're sounding snide or crappy or doubtful, make the conscious decision to change.

Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.

I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.

In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

It was horrible having to watch myself on TV. I think I would have had a much better time if I didn't take it so seriously.

They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.

If I'm caught off guard or I'm not in a great mood, or if I'm feeling down or if I'm in my head and somebody comes up to me and I can't match the energy, I just have to think, 'Well, I did my job, which was to do the show or release the album or be in the TV show or write the joke. Beyond that, it's kind of a hit or miss what happens between us.'

It's a different world now. Guest-starring on a TV show is not some indication that things aren't going right anymore.

I think that you are what you speak a lot of times, and there's power in the tongue. I feel sorry for the people who always have something negative to say. If something happens bad in my day, I don't tweet about it - I pray about it, or talk to my husband about it or my mother about it, and get it off of me and move on.

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

I can feel middle age approaching, but I reckon the trick is to ignore all the signs. I'm lucky in that I've always looked half the age I am. So the way I see it is that I'm still in my twenties!

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

I used to be terribly aggressive in my twenties.