#terri

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. ↗

— David Mamet

#ratify #terrifying #threaten #us #which

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director. ↗

— David Mamet

#actor #became #correct #director #good

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#believes #changed #changes #goes #i

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#child #company #delicious #especially #extremely

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. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#any #business #child #cos #fun

While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox. ↗

— Barry McGuigan

#father #fox #got #him #hold

We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror. ↗

— Vince McMahon

#beyond #especially #family #get #goes

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#always #comes #excel #experience #itself

I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A. ↗

— George Michael

#go #i #out #terrifying #too

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

— Wilson Mizner

#closet #makes #restless #skeleton #something