Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life.
My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
My nightmare is that I don’t want to be OK.
Saddam Hussein was a nightmare for the Iraqi people, and his execution marks the end of an era when violence against innocent men, women and children was a means to wealth and power.
It’s a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I’m in. There’s a horrible inescapability to it.
In TV you are paired up with strangers and it could be a nightmare.
A Turkey under a dictatorial regime, providing haven to violent radicals and pushing its Kurdish citizens into desperation, would be a nightmare for Middle East security.
I’ve been fortunate when in government to have a car at my disposal, which takes away the nightmare of getting a taxi.
I am, in fact, a candle salesperson’s worst nightmare – or dream come true, depending on the salesperson.
Like a horrible nightmare, the abrogation of equal rights weighs upon us all, but especially upon those Jews who, like me, had surrendered themselves to the dream of assimilation.
I used to love those movies, back in the day, like ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street,’ ‘Friday the 13th,’ ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ and ‘The Shining.’ I really liked those kind of movies, and I wanted to be a part of one of those kinds of movies.
I love acting. When I’m acting I feel like I’m on vacation. I’m just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.
The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
There’s something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that’s just very exciting. That’s why with ‘Nightmare’ I held out for so long to do it.
Working on ‘Nightmare Before Christmas,’ I had endless arguments, like the studio saying, ‘You can’t have a main character that’s got no eyeballs!’ ‘How is anybody going to feel for somebody with just eyesockets?’ You know? So, it’s those kind of things that really wear you down.
As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
Honestly, I never thought we’d get a nomination for a Grammy, period. To be honest, we felt that if we were ever going to get one, we thought we had ‘City of Evil’ and ‘Nightmare’ and ‘Hail to the King,’ and those were all big records, and they never even sniffed at us.
Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it’s just about turning into metaphor whatever’s going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.
I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too, a fear informed by the knowledge that whatever my worst nightmare is, there is someone out there embittered enough to carry it out.
Mumbai is becoming more and more of a nightmare.
What I had heard about TV is that it’s very rigid – that you have to hit your mark, look a certain way, do certain things, that there is no freedom artistically – and that’s my worst nightmare. I don’t work well in rigid environments.
I think I wrote the first draft of ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ in ’79. No one wanted to buy it. Nobody. I felt very strongly about it, so I stayed with it and kept paying my assistant and everything. At a certain point, I was literally flat broke.
I think it’d be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that’s it.
There is no doubt something has happened that is lasting in terms of attractiveness of the nightmare that is the Islamic State.
Singing karaoke is my worst nightmare. But in the car, I rock out to anything Bon Jovi or Beastie Boys.
You don’t come around to the pit lane every mile; when you leave on a rally, you’re gone for 500 miles in certain stages. You’ve got to work on your own car and fix it. It’s a logistical nightmare, and it really challenges me.
At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare.
When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, ‘If I kill someone, would you still love me?’ My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I’m not the only one to ask for that – not love, but absolute fidelity.
The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it’s a nightmare when it fails. And the more people who come to depend upon it, the bigger the nightmare.
My earliest memories of horror are ‘Friday the 13th Part 2,’ John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing,’ ‘Halloween,’ ‘An American Werewolf in London,’ and ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street’… and ‘Hatchet’ is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
We see people in the Middle East begin to have dreams of new Ottoman Empire where everyone will be subjected to some of what we’ve seen happen in those countries where we helped bring about an Arab Spring that’s turned into a Winter Nightmare.
A nightmare would be when somebody is trying to be funnier than everyone else. And you’ve got a group scene or two-person scene, and one person decides, ‘I’m the funny in this,’ and bulldozes everyone else, and they make sure they’re the reason everyone loves the scene.
I’ve definitely met nightmare Hollywood types who think they’re getting twenty million dollars a picture when they’re not. But they act like it. And they just insult everybody.
‘Margaret’ as a creative entity is something that I’m very happy and proud of. But ‘Margaret’ as a professional experience was a nightmare until it was rescued by critics and people who liked it.
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Soliciting anything of value from a foreign national to help a U.S. campaign is not just illegal; it is the Founding Fathers’ nightmare.
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
If we all work together, then we can save the American Dream from the nightmare that is Donald Trump.
My diet, my regime, the whole life I have on the road has always got that little bit of stress because I’m always afraid I’m going to get a cold. And it’s just such a nightmare when you got a cold or an irritation and you have to do a show.
I was every mother’s nightmare – I was a hair model from 14, and I started coming home with red, blue, green hair.
I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.
I’m really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don’t want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
I can’t find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. ‘Where’s my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.’
You can’t really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete’s worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun.
Jail was terrible. It was a nightmare.
I’ve never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.
I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I’m not as bad as I used to be. These days I don’t drink alcohol for five days before a show – very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.
I wanted to be a prosthetic makeup artist after watching ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street’.
There are so many factors that go into directing. It’s honestly a logistical nightmare for a lead to direct themselves in an episode.
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
Since I became a senator in 2015, my office has been inundated by countless letters, emails, and calls from North Carolinians telling us how Obamacare has been a nightmare for them and their families.
Sometimes I long for the parents I didn’t have; that’s a recurring nightmare.
My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.
Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles.
