Excruciating Quotes

I don`t want to leave New York and leave my family. I don`t like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it`s kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It`s bound to try a man`s soul.

(His diary entry after viewing Star Wars (1977) for the first time): It`s a pretty staggering film as spectacle and technically brilliant. Exciting, very noisy and warm-hearted. The battle scenes at the end go on for five minutes too long, I feel, and some of the dialogue is excruciating and much of it is lost in noise, but it remains a vivid experience. The only really disappointing performance was Anthony Daniels as the robot, fidgety and over-elaborately spoken. Not that any of the cast can stand up to the mechanical things around them.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.