Very Happy Quotes - Page 5

• Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

  Natalie Portman

  Mean, Shoes, New Experiences

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I'm very happy because I won a lot. I've won races and lived in a world that just gave me joy, so I remember it very positively.

  Valentino Rossi

  Race, Joy, World

  Interview, global.yamaha-motor.com. 2014.

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• Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband.

  Meryl Streep

  Husband, Children, Choices

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• You only have to pick up a paper to see the sort of scams and injustices that are out there. There's a sense that people don't belong and just aren't very happy. They're outraged, in fact, and they're being shafted left, right and centre.

  Sean Bean

  People, Scams, Paper

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I was very happy with Vampire's Kiss, which in my opinion was almost like an independent laboratory to start realizing some of my more expressionistic dreams with film performance. Then using what I had learned in Vampire's Kiss and putting it into a very big action movie in the form of Face/Off with John Woo. If you look at those two movies back to back, you can see where I stole from my performance in Vampire's Kiss.

  Nicolas Cage

  Dream, Independent, Kissing

  "Nicolas Cage: ‘Personal Issues Don’t Have a Place in Film Commentary’" by Eliza Berman, time.com. August 7, 2015.

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• My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Happy Times, Coming Back

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I got a hotel room at New York New York in Las Vegas and I was very happy. They've got that rollercoaster encircling the entire premises, just like Manhattan.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, New York, Humor

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• I'm very proud of all the movies I made. I am very happy with everything I've done. I like to watch my movies. Some of them work. Some of them don't. Some of them people like, most of them they don't.

  George Lucas

  People, Watches, Done

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• We have a really, really great dog. It doesn't bark. My dog almost smiles, which is weird. He's just a very happy dog.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Dog, Bark, Really Great

  "Jimmy Fallon Interviews Jimmy Fallon". Interview with Eric Spitznagel and Peter Yang, www.menshealth.com. December 23, 2014.

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• If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Reading, Doe, World

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• Well before I was in a band, I wanted to be everything from a vet, an astronaut, an archeologist was a big one. It could be very wide-ranging because I had a lot of different interests including music so I'm very happy where I wound up.

  Joan Jett

  Different, Vets, Band

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 7, 2013.

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• I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

  Al Pacino

  Performing, Turn Me, Turns

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.

  William Osler

  Knowledge, Giving, Way

  Sir William Osler, Classics of Medicine Library (1985). “The philosophical essays”

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• It's an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I'd be very happy.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Honor, Half, If I Could

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• I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.

  Stephen Lang

  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

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• How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Minorities, Done, Proud

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• I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love.

  Claude Monet

  Fighting, Settings, Delighted

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I was very happy, I think part of the point of this creativity is to do something that helps you in a cathartic sense.

  Winston Graham

  Creativity, Thinking, Helping

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• I'm very happy to be back playing rugby for England again - there were times when I questioned if this would happen.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  England, Rugby, Happens

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• I had a very happy childhood and very loving parents. We didn't have much money and I suppose therefore you felt that anything you did you'd have to do on your own, so it does make you quite motivated.

  Terry Leahy

  Childhood, Parent, Doe

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• The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.

  Gerard Houllier

  Football, Jobs, England

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• I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.

  Walter Cronkite

  Doctors, Years, Play

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• I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.

  Walt Disney

  Mood

  "Walt Disney: Ruler of the Magic Kingdom" by Richard Schickel, www.cnn.com. December 7, 1998.

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• I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories and work for as long as I have. I'm sure there'll be a few more films but I'm happy that I'm able to be selective.

  Angelina Jolie

  Opportunity, Careers, Long

  "Maleficent - Angelina Jolie interview". Interview with Jason Palmer, Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

  Joan Kirner

  Cain, Deputies, Ministers

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