Terribly Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now.

I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened.

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.