Orson Welles Quotes

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.

If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I'm a 'glass half full' person. In fact, it's three-quarters full!

When you've seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what's important.

When I get down, I don't waller around for long.

There are so many things in life that make you sad, you have to be happy.

Both my parents lived through a world war. My grandparents lived through two world wars. And they didn't go around saying, 'Look for happiness.'

I think I'm lucky in that I can park things. I don't dwell. I've got a selective memory. I only remember the good things. I don't know what a psychologist or a psychiatrist would say about that.

If I'm in a good headspace, then it doesn't matter which direction things go.

I'm someone who has always had a positive outlook towards life.

Have a good sense of perspective and be able to snap yourself out of bad moods, as we often wind ourselves up about the silliest things.

I choose to focus on the positive.

I'm a happy person. Sometimes, I have to make a conscious effort to stay happy. See, my predispositions are - as opposed to what you see - I'm actually quite a sensitive person, very empathetic, very emotional... Very impulsive.

I only take the positives, and I don't take the negatives.