My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I’d rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.
I’m a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.
I am around people I love to be with all day; I’m not lonely. The simplest, happiest pleasure is being on my couch with my dog, Neville. Nothing is more comforting or soothing.
I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.
My happiest moments are when I’m on my high wire with the Johnny Carsons of the world. I don’t have that opportunity if I’m doing other people’s scripts.
The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.
My primary lesson, however, was that I’m a solo writer, happiest when I’m making all the executive decisions. I’ve always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.
You get to choose the bond of lifelong friendships, of being there for the darkest and happiest of times.
You’d imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn’t.
I’m happiest when I’m in a helmet.
I am the happiest guy around; trust me.
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
If an England call came, I would be the happiest man alive.
All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I’m having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
I’m not a city kind of guy. I’m happiest when I’m tromping through the woods. That’s why I don’t live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.
I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be ‘the happiest moment’ of one’s life.
I’m happiest when I’m discussing a script and working with interesting people.
When I feel like work and life are both going well, I feel like I can be fully present at both. I think the reminder to me is that both are super important, and I need to be able to feel like I can experience both in the way that makes me happiest. If I’m not happy in one or the other, it really affects the other side.
Well, it made perfect sense that I originally wanted to be an actor because every Sunday, we walked into church and we acted like we were the happiest, most together family.
You have to remember that I’m a guy who is happiest in a dark room just thinking.
Being pregnant is supposed to be the happiest time in your life.
You know what has made me the happiest I’ve ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.
When we anticipate, we’re the happiest. Unless you’re on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can’t anticipate. You think everything’s going to be horrible, so it usually is.
I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I’ve figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.
Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.
If we can, like, be in the backyard playing baseball, I’d be the happiest kid in the world.
I’m at my happiest when I’m on a movie set. It’s like therapy for me.
As far as my leadership style is concerned what makes me happiest is fulfilling my potential and helping others realize theirs. If you have really done that then the rest of it is actually very simple.
I am extremely passionate about what I do, and the happiest I am is when I’m on set working.
The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they’re never worried about being rich.
If I’m honest, I think everything is funny. You’ve just got to find the right way in. When I’m at my happiest and when I’m really on it, when I feel like I’m really on good form at the moment, everything can be funny.
I think we’re programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they’re working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.
We used to have championships in the streets with my friends, and whoever scored a goal was the happiest boy in the world. Now, every time that I score, I go back to being a child: the happiness of scoring a goal is unexplainable.
What is it about trains that makes food taste so good? Some of my happiest memories are of prolonged lunches between St. Moritz and Zurich, Bordeaux and Paris, and even between Coimbra and Salamanca.
You go through every single inch of the emotional spectrum on fight week. You’re the most stressed out you’ve ever been, you’re the most pressured you’ve ever been, you’re the happiest you’ve ever been – it’s hard. It’s exhausting.
I’m happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
