Jeff Smith Quotes

It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

It might be quite boring if you did something and thought it was perfect.

I've made movies on every part of the spectrum, and you do understand when you go into certain movies that you're trying to elicit a certain kind of response from the audience, and people get a real sense of satisfaction when they're rooting for a character and the character pulls it off.

We've all felt anger. It can come when things don't turn out the way we want. It might be a reaction to something which is said of us or to us. We may experience it when people don't behave the way we want them to behave. Perhaps it comes when we have to wait for something longer than we expected. We might feel angry when others can't see things from our perspective. There seem to be countless possible reasons for anger….If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry.

Are you not entertained?

I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I should infuriate you more often.

There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.

I was actually really happy with where my game was at. That's probably the most disappointing aspect.

If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

For years now, people have mentioned my mustache and get disappointed that when they see me live I don't have a mustache.

I am surprised by what people expect of me.

What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn't for certain people.

It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.

Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything.

She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.

Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to be bitter if they had the sense to swallow it whole in a cup of patience and water.

I have to stop crying when I watch "The View". It's not because of the topics at hand, I just feel sorry for that couch.

All I know is there's thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven't won Oscars.A lot of people are crying, I guess.

Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it go, are you?" "No." "In that case . . . I hope you enjoy disappointment." We scowled at each other in silence. I was the first to speak, trying to keep myself focused. I was in danger of being distracted by his livid, glorious face. It was like trying to stare down a destroying angel. "Why did you even bother?" I asked frigidly. He paused, and for a brief moment his stunning face was unexpectedly vulnerable. "I don't know," he whispered.

In my career, I've had people talking about different things many times, but then not get nominated.

I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.

She glared at him. "You're doing it again." "What?" "That thing that irritates me." "Smiling?" "Yes. That.