Best 491 quotes in «awful quotes» category

I tried playing electric for awhile and it just didn't work out. My reflexes are centered on the six string acoustic. I just played the electric too hard and it sounded awful, so I gave it up.

It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.

It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship." "It's awful worse luck not to.

it’s awful. No privacy, no secrets. Everything you’re ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see.

It's awful to be afraid of sex, but I'm afraid that's what the '50s did to people. It was just sex is disgusting, it shouldn't be talked about. Nudity is disgusting, we just don't talk about those kinds of things.

It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.

It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.

It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true of every great era. I'm sure there was a lot dreadful art in the Renaissance that we fortunately don't see today.

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see…I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.

It's just a big excuse to say awful things.

It's lovely to be told you're wonderful by someone when you're used to being told how awful you are.

It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.

it's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us.

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

I've never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.

It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!

It's really boring to talk about what you ate and have 48,000 fans listen to you. It's awful.

It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.

It wasn't awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want pain, she wouldn't want to be wounded or mutilated. She could never shoot herself or jump off a building. But being dead wasn't unthinkable.

I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

I've seen an awful lot of plays that I'd read before they were put into production and been shocked by what's happened to them. In the attempt to make them straightforward and commercially successful, a lot of things go out the window.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

I've played an awful lot of repressed people.

I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.

I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.

I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

I was diagnosed with full-body cancer. I am the healthiest person you know. You know I do it all. I take vitamins. I grew my own food. I do everything. And it didn't fit, and it was so awful.

I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!

I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.

I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.

I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.

I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.