I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.
Robert Redford

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
Henry Rollins

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Peter Ustinov

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
Cat Stevens

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
Earl Weaver

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
Peter Benchley

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.
Michael Pollan

I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.
Roger Moore

I may be an optimist.
Rebecca De Mornay

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.
Clay Aiken

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change.
Ron Silver

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio Gramsci

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
Harold Wilson

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
Eric Sevareid

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.
Sandra Bernhard

In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.
Tony Lema

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
Jack Nicholson

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg