Domhnall Gleeson Quotes

I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.

I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.

I assume that the worst will happen. So I'm never optimistic.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

Pessimism is my default setting.

Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

Fear of decision-making is one thing I personally resist, and I'm trying to encourage others to resist as well.

I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.

I'm sort of a negative guy.

Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.

Maybe we should always assume the worst.

I'm a pessimist by nature. A pot head, but a pessimist.

I can't help it. I always focus in on the negative.

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

Negative thinking creates clouds at critical decision times.

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.

I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.

During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. By not risking at first one turns aside and serves trivialities; in the second case, by risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.