Torturing Quotes

When I did Vampire`s Kiss, I got so wound up. It was so important to me that this vision I had of Peter Lowe`s character get on film exactly the way that I wanted it, that I frankly don`t think I was very easy for anyone to live with. Certainly, I was not easy for myself to live with. I remember that I wasn`t drinking or anything at the time. One night I felt so wound up that I was about to snap. I ordered a martini. And I just relaxed, and I could tell my body really needed a rest. From then on, I learned you can do good work without torturing yourself.

(Discussing her daughter, Jessica): Kids at her school will sidle up to me and say, "Does Jessica know what happens in book 4? Does Jessica know the title of book 4?" And I keep saying, "No! There is no point kidnapping her, taking her around back of the bike shed, and torturing her for information."

Think what we were doing -- we were torturing kids! ... And then they gave me a check at the end of the week.

Fiona: Where`s Gareth? Matthew: Torturing Americans. Fiona: How thoughtful of him.

They (the government) do not want a public airing of the fact the government is indefinitely holding people, torturing people.

Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building, reducing it to a heap of unsightly ashes, so are men consumed by the flames of passions, and their deeds and works fall and perish.