Joel Grey Quotes

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

The way I look at the world, if you can't find a way to get something good out of the experience, then you have lived an unhappy life. All the actors I have worked with, superstars or otherwise, I have enjoyed.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

I can never complain about the situation that I'm in. I try to put everything into perspective.

A win doesn't always come exactly how you want it to, but it's a win nonetheless. And anyone who doesn't think so, I don't even know what to tell them.

I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.

Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

There's always going to be somebody worse off than me.

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.