“We thought green was cheerful, but not too cheerful. Green was also serious.”

“We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys; bebrisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.”

“You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.”

“We have a mission to others--to add to their cheer. This we cannot do unless we have first learned the lesson of cheerfulness ourselves.”

“We stole the Statue of Liberty…! [the minions cheer] …the small one, from Las Vegas!”[the cheers stop] — as Gru”

“We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little cheer into some discouraged heart, make the path a little smoother for someone’s tired feet, or help some fainting robin unto its nest again. This is right. We cannot put too great emphasis upon the duty of giving happiness and cheer to others. But it is no less a duty that we should be happy and cheerful ourselves.”