In the end they'll judge me anyway, so whatever.
I start out by believing the worst
I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.
We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.
I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.
You hate it before you played it. I already forgave ya.
The last thing I want to do is get too happy.
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.
It feels good. It's not bad for somebody who can't shoot.
One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.
I don't know how exactly but I'm maybe perverse in the sense that I like being disappointed in something on a daily basis. Because it means that I'm still not jaded.
It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.
Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
Whenever I investigate a smell, I find that the answer is always bad. It's never: 'What is that? *sniff* muffins!'
I went to the doctor, and they found something in my bladder. And whenever they find something, it's never anything good like, "We found something in your bladder AND IT'S SEASON TICKETS TO THE YANKEES!!"
I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
I can do this, I lied to myself feebly. No one was going to bite me.
I'm not one of those people who walks away and says, "That's a lot better than I thought it was going to be." I said, "No, this is as bad as I thought it was going to be, I didn't like it. I didn't want to talk to anybody."
Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.
Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!
I am a fan of sequels even though they are inevitably awful.
Whatever anyone says, I think the opposite will happen.
