As far as I know, Vera Miles had a terrible time with Hitchcock, and she wanted to get out of the contract. He didn’t let her. She did ‘Psycho,’ and I believe, if you look at ‘Psycho,’ there isn’t one close up of Vera, not one. After that, she would never even speak about him to anyone.
I have lots of friends, but I’m probably a terrible friend to all of them, even my family. I wouldn’t be surprised if I found myself with no friends later on in life. My friends become my enemies.
Dad, I’m in some trouble. There’s been an accident and you’re going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn’t even stand to look at it any more.
You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.
The measure of a man’s life is how he copes with the terrible wall of fear.
We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.
On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.
In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I’d make one a week and finally I’d pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I’m trying to keep it down to one a season.
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that’s fine; you only need to get it right once.
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I’m moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
I don’t consider myself a political comedian because it’s so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.
There are three terrible ages of childhood – 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.
Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. They’re a bad way for companies to evaluate candidates. They’re a bad way for candidates to evaluate companies. They waste time and generate stress on both sides.
I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, ‘I’ll write more than everybody else, and that’s how I’ll get better.’
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not.
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
The truth is, I’ve always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.
There’s an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
I acted in a couple friends’s short films and thought I was gonna be really good and mysterious and sexy. And I was just terrible and self-aware.
I never turn on the crowd. Sometimes, you think it’s a terrible show, and then afterward, sometimes people say they really liked it. So turning on the crowd is only going to alienate the few people who might like it. What do I do in that situation? Get through it.
We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
President Obama has proven himself to be a terrible negotiator. I don’t support any trade deal negotiated by his administration.
I’ve read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you’re a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I’ll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!
It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I’m truly terrible at acting.
Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It’s terrible.
Choose something you like to do. I know it’s a cliche, and you’ve heard it over and over. But the reason is, you’re going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.
Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere… terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it’s wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they’re waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you’re in trouble. Just do what you love. That’s all I want to do.
No one wants to see a person on TV who’s super-ultra-cool. That’s Superman, that’s a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They’re real people.
I’m a terrible grocery shopper. I hardly ever do it. And if I do, there’s never more than three things in the bag.
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
Divorce is always terrible, but I haven’t met anyone who went through it and isn’t happier now.
You know, I’ve got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.
There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do have to make some changes in your behavior, but there is absolutely no need for you to give them power over your happiness.
Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.
Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.
I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.
To outlive one’s child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.
I used to have terrible acne on my face: red, splotchy discoloration. And mucus – I was constantly blowing my nose. Then one day, this woman sits down next to me on a bus, and says, ‘You’re lactose-intolerant.’ It all cleared up in three days. That changed my life. Doctors couldn’t figure it out.
I’m not particularly politically correct, so I tend to reflect what I think are the terrible realities of life, which I think are, generally speaking, conservative.
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.
I’m terrible with money, absolutely awful. I’m always losing it.
I’m not a good dancer but Rap Monster is really terrible at it. The two of us are ultimate dance rivals.
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
Sarcasm is like cheap wine – it leaves a terrible aftertaste.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can’t do what they used to do, and that’s terrible.
‘Oscar Wao’ for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn’t that terrible.
If a movie is received badly, and I’m in only one scene of it, I still feel responsible. I feel like it was my fault at all times. If people were like, ‘This movie sucks!’ I’d be like, ‘Well, that’s because I’m terrible.’
Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You’re tired, you’ve had a headache since you arrived, but you can’t leave because then you’d miss the party.
Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.
I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.
