Heather Graham Quotes

I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

I think my comedy is about finding the good in bad situations - finding the joy. Why be angry? It doesn't help anything.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

You have to squeeze every creative moment and be grateful.

I believe in accepting whatever life offers with a laugh. So if things are dark and terrible, I try to find the funny side to it. Probably that's why I gravitate towards comedy.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.

I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.

If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.

There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation.

I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

I just try to play make-believe and pretend the world is magical and awesome as much as possible.

Creativity is connected to your passion, that light inside you that drives you. . . . Your creativity is not a bad boyfriend. It is a really warm older Hispanic lady who has a beautiful laugh and loves to hug.

nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

You can't appreciate a great day unless you've experienced bad ones." - Rabbi Glassman