Terribly Quotes

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.

If each of your time steps is one week long, you are not modeling the stock price terribly well over a one-week time period, because you are saying that there are only two possible outcomes.

I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.

I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'

I'm not terribly sentimental.

I'm terribly human.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.