Some foolish people must have a tragedy, for they cannot believe in happy endings
The Saudi government uses a lot of British equipment to suppress their own people. But we're happy for our politicians to go on advertising trips to Saudi, selling our weapons at the trade conventions.
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me.
That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright - and makes me really happy.
As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.
India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money, but I've stayed happy.
I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.
I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.
Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.
