Quotes

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

In film, you can have sad endings.

Sadly, I never really tell people what I think. So it's a real treat to play a woman who's able to speak her mind unabashedly.

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.

I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.

My first big disappointment is always, why don't I look like Julie Christie? Then I realise I don't look remotely like Julie Christie, and that's always a great sadness to me. Because I used to think I might have done, at one time. And I'm too fat. And I'm too old. You always see your faults, you see.

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

I feel like no matter what I write about, I try to end up being the stronger person in the situation. Even in heartbreak, I feel like I'm a much stronger person because of that. I don't want to just write a sad song and still feel sad after that. I want to feel stronger and better.

When I see people sad, I'm sad.

When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.

I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.

I don't like violence, in reel or real life. I prefer the quiet, beautiful genre of movies where everything is rosy and pleasant. I stay away from extreme sadness in my scripts and, somehow, I can't make movies for kids.

It is that kind of space, that little space of longing, whether it is in something like romantic love, or whether it's in something like divine love. You know, that kind of search for something that's not quite in your grasp. It's a very powerful place to explore as an artist, because it's not necessarily sad.

'The Fault in Our Stars' is a beautiful film that's really positive. The second half gets sad, but it's always positive.

My thing with fans is, it's always about being really good to them and taking the time to take every picture. If there are 300 people, you should take 300 pictures - you shouldn't take 250 because then fifty people will go home sad. Why would you do that?

A lot of people want to go out there, help people, and save the world. Sadly, half the time they can't even help themselves.

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

I grew up in Cleveland, so my heart got attached at a young age to the freight train of sadness that is Cleveland sports.

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

There are sad moments - lonely moments - when you're sitting up in your room all by yourself, shooting on location in Atlanta or Vancouver or L.A., and your family's back home. You can miss home.