The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation. — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Actors always lie about horse-riding, and it ends terribly. I can horse-ride... ish. — Tom Mison Copy Share Image
You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about. — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it. — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that. — Anna Chancellor Copy Share Image
No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
You never have an indifferent feeling after an audition. It's either gone really well or really terribly. — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed… — F. Lee Bailey Copy Share Image
How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main… — Louise Jameson Copy Share Image
I think if you look back through time, the history of income, wealth and taxation is full of surprise. So I am… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist.… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys. A lot of the time, it's criminals who are the people… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
In real life, I have mostly gone for nice guys. I definitely had a phase where I was like, "Oh, the bad… — Melissa Ordway Copy Share Image
Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
I used to play chess when I was a kid and participate in national-level tournaments with the geekiest guys. This one time,… — Jordana Spiro Copy Share Image
I had no idea when I went to college what I'd be doing. I took organic chemistry and did terribly, but I… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on… — Alan J. Pakula Copy Share Image
Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
