Dustin Lance Black Quotes

In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

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

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

I'm such a fan of the glass being half full.

I'm very much a glass-is-half-full guy.

I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.

If the glass is half-full or half-empty, it remains the same glass.

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

I'm happy to admit that I'm a hopeless optimist.