Cynical Quote by George C. Wolfe Download Open image “It's easier to be cynical and edgy and tough rather than overly emotional.” — George C. Wolfe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynical Edgy Emotional Rather Tough
We're living in a literary age, at least in America, that is marked by a sense of distance, a coolness, in all senses of… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I was raised differently, where you just have to be tough and not talk about your emotions. — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs. — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
“the toughest feeling is when you need to be emotionally sophisticated.” — Upasana Banerjee Copy Share Image
It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon. — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
It is challenging when you are dealing with people's emotions. — Prosenjit Chatterjee Copy Share Image
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
If you have the talent and passion and commitment, you shouldn't be locked out of the room. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before… — Steve Goodier Copy Share
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share
A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much. — Andre Siegfried Copy Share Image
I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be. — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy. — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
