Choose Joy.

If you were to ask who my top favorite Actor and Actress would be, I would tell you, Carey Grant and Kate Winslet. They never disappoint me and I fall in love with them every time, even if the movie itself is somewhat failing. My favorite story about Kate Winslet is when she tried to show her kids what she does for a living. Most of her movies had been inappropriate for small children to watch. She finally made a children's movie with the hit "Flushed Away". After they enjoyed watching her movie, she tried seeing if they understood what her job was. Her daughter replied with, "Oh I see...Mommy, you do mouse voices." Poor Kate. One day her daughter will know her Mommy's brilliance.
My list of actors would go on to include Anne Hathaway and many others. Anne Hathaway has displayed a consistent integrity throughout her career movie choices. She has not seemed to been wrapped up in the shallowness of Hollywood. She doesn't have a sex tape or been caught not wearing panties. Which brings me to one of my favorite quotes. She was interviewed a couple months back in a magazine and something she said has stuck with me and has been a comfort to me. In the last paragraph of her interview, the article reads, "It's hard to sum up the balance she is trying to achieve, but Anne thoughtfully explains, 'There's something that, growing up, my mom would say to me. And I say it back to her a lot. We're fairly dramatic people. And we're prone to very big feelings. So, when those very big feelings sometimes aren't the most positive thing, we just look at each other, and we say, 'Choose joy.' " That quote resonates with me in a very powerful way. I wish I had had its wisdom as a child, so that it would have validated the positives of being a dramatic person, but the simple way I needed to deal with the negative. There are a lot of us dramatic people who simply let our feelings get the best of us. Being it the positive or the negative. We just have to remember that's who we are and we need to "Choose joy". Very simply put, but profoundly effective if used.