I'm not EASILY WOUND up, but overly cynical PEOPLE irritate me.

I think it's DANGEROUS being cynical because you CLOSE DOORS rather than OPEN them.

I don't know many SOUTH Africans who don't have their EYES wide open to what it's like to be exposed to some sort of VIOLENCE. The question is WHETHER we choose to be cynical about it or not.

The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's SHAMEFUL STUFF, and I don't know - people live their LIFE like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.

People don't care anymore because they don't BELIEVE in us; they don't TRUST us. And that's why we should CHANGE politics, not just ACCEPT the cynical FRAME that, 'Well, that's just politics.'

It's EASIER to be cynical and EDGY and TOUGH RATHER than overly EMOTIONAL.

Generally I don't LIKE doing remakes, but I THINK that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are PURELY for COMMERCIAL reasons.

Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the LEAST BIT SENTIMENTAL comes up, they'll often START flying off the handle. But I'm like, 'Wait a minute, you've had those times in your LIFE. Everybody has.'

I've ALWAYS FELT that if I ever got cynical, I would have to STOP MAKING music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

A COMEDIAN's a comedian. They're a very KIND of cynical BUNCH. I GUESS that's why I LIKE them.

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have IRONY. A sense of HUMOUR, YES, but not irony.

If you LOOK at some shows that have an UGLY feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually FIND a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people BEHIND the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical LOGIC that SAYS the American DREAM belongs to some of us but not all of us.

You have to be cynical because this is a BUSINESS. EVERYONE is MAKING MONEY out of you.