Maggie Smith Quotes

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.

I have no problem with people feeling a bit down - crikey, you only have to walk down the road to find enough reasons to fall into a depressive coma - but I do have a problem with whining about it.

It's easy to be negative.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good vibes.

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

I'm not cynical.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

I have a lot of friends that take that position of extreme cynicism, and I just can't let myself go to that place. It's just too easy, and it's just too defeatist.

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

I never approach a character from a negative place.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.

I'm not pessimistic about anything.

I get very uncomfortable with negativity.

Some people are so sad that, at times, that's what gets on my nerves - if they just hammer the doom, with no comic relief whatsoever.

I think if you allow yourself to mope and feel sorry for yourself, it can take years off your life.

I don't like being pessimistic. I don't like living my life with a nihilistic mindset.