Hideous Quotes

(on Joseph L. Mankiewicz) "Letter to Three Wives" and "All About Eve" were marvelous films. I thought that the last good film he made was "Five Fingers," because personally I have not seen a Mankiewicz film that appeared to be well-directed since then. For instance, "Cleopatra" was a hideous film but nevertheless you could see that it had some good, well-written scenes and the director had not served the writer well.

I don`t think I`ll ever escape the fact that I don`t belong anywhere in particular. I`ve often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that`s a very romantic notion. It`s a hideous country to go to in reality.

The movie should appeal to everyone. It`s sleazy, elegant, vicious and mean, and it`s about people doing hideous things to each other. If that weren`t enough, it has a tragic end. What more could people ask for? - On Dangerous Liaisons.

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you`ve ever heard.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

I didn`t think I was hideous or anything.

(on Joseph L. Mankiewicz) "Letter to Three Wives" and "All About Eve" were marvelous films. I thought that the last good film he made was "Five Fingers," because personally I have not seen a Mankiewicz film that appeared to be well-directed since then. For instance, "Cleopatra" was a hideous film but nevertheless you could see that it had some good, well-written scenes and the director had not served the writer well.

(on working with Alfred Hitchcock on "Psycho") Hitch relished scaring me. When we were making "Psycho," he experimented with the mother`s corpse, using me as his gauge. I would return from lunch, open the door to the dressing room and propped up in my chair would be this hideous monstrosity. The horror in my scream, registered on his Richter scale, decided which dummy he`d use as the Madame.

Tiny Tim? Anyone could sing like that. It`s atrocious. It`s hideous, really.

It`s weird. I never hid adolescence. I kind of bypassed it, and I`m a bit angry that I didn`t go through all the angst. I had the acne but no angst. From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of a Rough Gang - we went around and terrorised all the pupils in school. I was this really nasty kid, and then overnight I turned into the man I am now.

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.

(Talking about Lee Krasner, her character in Pollock (2000)): "When she was first married, Lee`s main concern was pleasing Jackson, she was the kind of woman who hung her hat on another man`s peg to find herself, in spite of how brilliant she was in her own right. Their marriage was wonderful, fabulous, and hideous. They fed off each other in ways that weren`t always healthy, but, if they hadn`t been together, Pollock never would have become world famous and Lee wouldn`t have pushed herself to the artistic limits she did. As soon as they split, one of them was bound to destruct".

That was a big mystery, not having a motive and (the defendants) being family and all. I think that was a tragedy, I think that was a travesty, I think that was hideous. That was the worst thing that you could do to anyone, but you can`t just pin that on to somebody just because of what happened.

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.

I firmly believe that if we need to sell church property to pay the victims of the hideous sexual abuse by priests against children in their care, we should do so.

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it`s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

Throughout United States history we have encountered and defeated brutal enemies, inhumane and monstrous dictators and met with hideous violence.

I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called `heritage`.

You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!