Happy Endings Quotes - Page 4

• Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after -- that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer.

  Robert Altman

  Girl, Cancer, Divorce

  Robert Altman, David Sterritt (2000). “Robert Altman: Interviews”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

  Stephen King

  Once Upon A Time, Mets, Equal

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• A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker. "We talked about this before." "A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know." "Suppose you can't see it?" "That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Character, Bakers, May

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Gravestone, Eclipse

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

  Federico Fellini

  Treated, Ifs

  Federico Fellini, Bert Cardullo (2006). “Federico Fellini: Interviews”, p.40, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Trying, Hollywood, Want

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Moments, Fortune

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• My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.

  Glen Duncan

  Children, Believe, Parent

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• When I did 'Scrubs', we were able to always do one as scripted, and then we got to play a little bit and do some stuff. I thought that was pretty loose, but then coming on 'Happy Endings,' it's even looser.

  Eliza Coupe

  Play, Littles, Able

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't know what that means. Does that mean the taxi driver leaves his wife or doesn't leave his wife? I think it has a happy ending.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Mean, Son, Thinking

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• I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love... I’ve stopped believing in happy endings. I’ve started believing in good days.

  Drew Barrymore

  Believe, Good Day, Understanding

  "Drew Barrymore: My Life Isn't About Baggage Anymore" by Kevin Sessums, parade.com. September 24, 2009.

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• I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

  Edward Abbey

  Believe, Hopeful, Reason

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Corny, Difficult

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scrubs,' nor my Jane character on 'Happy Endings,' but I'm a mix of the two. I really feel that I'm kind of every character that I've ever played; it's just a part of me. And I am a bit of a control freak like Jane. I'm very, perhaps, obsessive like that.

  Eliza Coupe

  Character, Two, Freak

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.

  Tim Robbins

  Trying, Done, Want

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• Many animal rescue organizations hit with a hard-core, heartbreaking message. Their videos and stories can become difficult for average people to watch. By taking a more positive, heartwarming approach to animal rescue, I've been able to engage people and keep them engaged for years. Instead of selling the agony and misery - and sadly, there is no shortage of that - I start with the happy endings. I work backwards so the first message they get is joy and success due to their involvement. Opening the mind with humor and joy gets the rescue message in that much deeper.

  Elayne Boosler

  Animal, Average, Years

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• Not every effort at loving difficult people will have a positive ending... We don't love people in hopes of a happy ending. We love them because it's the right thing to do.

  Doug McIntosh

  Valentines Day, People, Effort

  Doug McIntosh, Paula McIntosh (1999). “Love Full Circle: The Golden Rule”, Moody Pub

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• At the time, I didn't know why, but I know now that when I was a little boy, I was scared to death of the Frankenstein films ... and in all these years later, I wanted it to come out with a happy ending, and I think it was my fear of the Frankenstein movies when I was 8 and 9 and 10 years old that made me want to write that story [Young Frankenstein].

  Gene Wilder

  Writing, Boys, Thinking

  Source: keranews.org

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• I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.

  Ruth Glick

  Jobs, Hero, Best Job

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• I was running the risk in Adventureland, even though we stayed close to the script, because I wanted it to be not a schematic movie. For better or worse, it's not a wish-fulfillment movie. It's got a kind of happy ending, but it's not like I forgot to put on the "Ten years later," and they've got four kids and a dog. Those guys are not together today. It always was leading up to the moment of "Oh, I have my first girlfriend." Credits.

  Greg Mottola

  Running, Dog, Girlfriend

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• I'm incredibly cheesy. I'm all about happy endings and all of that.

  Rebecca Mader

  Cheesy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending.

  Albert Einstein

  Everyday

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• I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

  Anna Quindlen

  Stories, Love Story, Novel

  Source: urbanmoms.ca

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• I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

  Joe Wright

  Ironic, Fairytale, Fairytale Ending

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• I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Crazy, Character

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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