Horrible Things Quotes

I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, ‘More than you know.’

I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I’ve seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.

People think that unless you become the de-glam girl, who has horrible things happening to her, you’re not really acting; all it takes to cry for the camera is some glycerine. Not doing anything is what’s difficult; I know a lot of actors who will agree with me.

I really expected Twitter to be a scary place, for people to say horrible things, but I’ve had just the opposite experience.

I was born in America. I was raised in America. And America truly has done me a lot of dirt, a lot of horrible things that I never will forget, but I know this is where I was born at.

Sometimes I feel that my job on earth is to put Julie White through horrible things, watch her writhe and then recover.

I can’t even look at daily comic strips. And I hate sitcoms because they don’t seem like real people to me: they’re props that often say horrible things to each other, which I don’t find funny. I have to feel like they’re real people.

I don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.

I’ve played horrible people and done horrible things, and there were moments on ‘The Knick’ where it was super uncomfortable – some of the things I had to do and say.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

Queer is invincible because people have tried everything – haven‘t they? What haven’t they tried to do to queer people? And horrible things happened. But you never stop, because it’s the truth of who you are.

You have to come to full realization of just how horrible things are. And this is how horrible things are: Donald Trump is almost the President of the United States.

Horrible things happen when you run out of other people’s money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.

I’ve never been a method actress; I’ve never been that person that wants to imagine horrible things happening in your own life in order to exploit them for your emotional being in the movie. I’m just not good at doing that.

I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.

The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.

The worst thing is the blank page at the start. Then the horrible things written on the blank page. Then deciding whether or not to throw out those horrible things: lame scenes, lame characters, bad ideas.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‘What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?’ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

People do horrible things.

The lesson of ‘CSI’ is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‘Let’s all just get along.’ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It’s like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there’s beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that’s where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you’re safe.

Critics can say horrible things. It only hurts when I agree with them.

It’s very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It’s not just because they are evil, but because that’s how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It’s always interesting figuring out how that happens.

My dad would do horrible things to me, but I was so desperate for his affection and his approval that I would keep coming back.

Hopefully as a result of ‘The Frozen Ground,’ more and more people will be aware of the horrible things that happen to ladies all over the world and give them respect. This movie is a love letter to those victims.

Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.

There is a man out there who prosecuted me. He’s been constantly calling different lawyers, telling them how afraid of me his is. He’s afraid I’ll come after him now that I’m out, because of all the horrible things he did to me. The furthest thing from my mind I would ever do is waste a day being vindictive.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it’s not offensive, it’s funny?

Dark witches focus on dark magic, black magic and all kinds of horrible things. I don’t believe white witches have warts on them either, or pointy noses.

I’m one of those people who lies awake all night and worries about all the horrible things that can go wrong, whether a comma was wrong.

Billions are spent in advertising every year to make you think horrible things are good for you and to get your money for things that will kill you.

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, ’cause you know they’re never going anywhere, and at some point, they’re going to forgive you.

One of the truly horrible things about the Holocaust is that it doesn’t end in 1945. It keeps affecting our lives in the way we think, and it will affect the way our children see the world.

If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that somebody is tortured is – is unlawful under – under our statutes, but the Constitution happens not to address it, just as it does not address a lot of other horrible things.

There’s war – there’s always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there’s always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.

People say a lot of mess about celebrities. In the social media world, celebrities are able to go online and see nice things and horrible things written about them – but these people on the Internet wouldn’t have the guts to say it to their face.

Nobody wants to hear horrible things about themselves.

It sounds weird… the #MeToo movement is positive because obviously it’s based on a lot of pain and horrible things that happen to women. But what comes out of knowing about it and talking about it is positive.

If I’m going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that’s too heavy a burden to put on young readers. But also, I get to meet with people who have waded through horrible things, and they get up every morning, and they try to do their best.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.