One mistake, your winning streak is over and you've got to start over again. But you have to be optimistic in life, and I find that it's also beautiful, because if things are too predictable, that sucks, too, right?
I am always optimistic.
I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.
It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.
I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.
I'm more optimistic than most.
I've been criticised for being an eternal optimist.
I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.
I'm an un-healable positive optimist.
I see myself as, one, an optimist, and two, a member of a huge family, and that's important to me.
