Top 100 Terrence Quotes
#1. I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its own world.
Colin Stetson
#2. I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting.
Owen Wilson
#3. I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
Faye Dunaway
#4. I can't write about rich people having relationship problems and breaking up in New York. I don't know that world of Terrence McNally. I knew I had to write people who talk the way I talk. And they talked very different than Terrence McNally.
Lucy Alibar
#5. Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography.
Olga Kurylenko
#6. On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.
Olga Kurylenko
#8. Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!
Julia Alvarez
#9. The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor. Do that first and say yes to people like Terrence Malick and Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen when they come and offer you movies. It's a great front row seat to filmmaking.
Sean Penn
#10. Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan)
Beth Fine
#11. I got a chance to meet Terrence Howard and hang out with him.
Juicy J
#12. If I hadn't left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn't have met my husband and I wouldn't have had the children that I've had. Life is interesting like that.
Sissy Spacek
#13. A lot of people inspire me. I'm a huge movie buff. From studying and watching movies, over and over again, directly influential are Terrence Malik and his naturalism, Robert Altman and his exploration of improvisation, and Judd Apatow, in terms of his comedic process.
David Gordon Green
#14. When you're on a Terrence Malick film, it's like you're part of a family.
Jessica Chastain
#15. 'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They care about making your play, your script, not some network production. We're treated like playwrights, not like fodder for some machine.
Terrence McNally
#16. In any story where solutions to mysteries are found, there should always be at least one mystery which remains unsolved.
Sean Terrence Best
#17. As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.
Terrence Howard
#18. I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can.
Terrence Howard
#19. The breath of song in your remembering eyes cascades fragile reflections of time-steeped sunsets tinting delicate snowflakes with the solitude of a sleeping forest where ancient secrets lie waiting, undisturbed by knowing, tranquil in the forgetfulness of yesterday's silvery silence
Sean Terrence Best
#20. I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'
Terrence Malick
#21. The romantic love story is a paradoxical fusion of two extraordinarily potent messages. The first is that love, deep connection, is the most important, indeed the only truly important matter in the world. And the second is that true love cannot exist in this world.
Terrence Real
#22. Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.
Terrence Malick
#23. If a relationship is built on sexuality, it won't last long.
Terrence Howard
#24. Learning to listen relationally, listen with cool heads and clear boundaries, listen with the quietness of the heart and the gentleness of the body, means having a self so developed it can afford to yield.
Terrence Real
#25. Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man.
Terrence Malick
#26. Toscanini once recorded a piece sixty five times. You know what he said when he finished? "It could be better." Think about it.
Terrence Malick
#27. They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.
Terrence Howard
#28. I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.
Terrence Howard
#29. There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.
Terrence Howard
#30. I look at a mentor of mine like Ryan Seacrest and the incredible amount of equity he's been able to bring to the broadcasting arena, and the branding and the world that he's been able to build around himself.
Terrence J
#31. The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your little dark room, you dream and wait for it.
Terrence Howard
#32. The difference between real acceptance and just backing away from an issue, or away from the whole relationship, is resentment.
Terrence Real
#33. In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics. If this is our roots, how can you blame the branches for following the course of the roots.
Terrence Howard
#34. In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I'm in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set.
Terrence J
#35. I always find heroes who are just like me,
I forget they're only human, and like me, broken
Terrence Alonzo Craft
#37. I think anyone who gives you relationship advice goes off of past relationships they have that didn't work. You've got to follow your own path.
Terrence J
#38. There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.
Terrence Malick
#39. The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.
Terrence Howard
#40. My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me.
Terrence Howard
#41. But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.
Terrence Howard
#42. Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.
Terrence Howard
#43. Despite all of their flaws and difficulties, these men don't want to walk out on their own lives, leave their wives and children. They want to come home.
Terrence Real
#44. ...the most reliable predictor of long-term marital success was a pattern in which the wives, in nonoffensive, clear ways, communicated their needs, and husbands willingly altered their behaviors to meet them.
Terrence Real
#45. The truth is, the personal ends up becoming part of your professional. As an actor, much of your work happens at home as you try things out on your family. Sometimes you stay in character unbeknownst to you and keep practicing.
Terrence Howard
#46. I'm trying to make enough money where I can be financially independent and be able to go and just pursue that thing that everybody really needs, just pursue my family and the cause of my family.
Terrence Howard
#47. If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that's a script!
Terrence Malick
#48. I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show with Chita Rivera. It keeps you on your toes because it's different every time.
Terrence McNally
#49. I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.
Terrence McNally
#51. The paradox of real love is that our capacity to sustain intimacy rests on our capacity to tolerate aloneness inside the relationship.
Terrence Real
#52. I used to hold you as my everything,
And so I built my castles in your lands,
But you proved to me your inadequacies,
With this, how will my castles stand?
Terrence Alonzo Craft
#53. You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done.
Terrence Howard
#54. We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children.
Terrence Howard
#56. Does tension exist between our perfect longings and the imperfect world?
Terrence Real
#57. Life goes on. people pass along. nothing stays the same. the lord gives and the lord takes away. thats the way he is ... !
Terrence Malick
#58. You keep knocking on the devil's door long enough and sooner or later someone's gonna answer you.
Terrence Howard
#59. There's a scripture in the Book of James which says, 'Become a doer of the word and not a hearer only.' A hearer is someone who looks into a mirror, walks away, and quickly forgets what sort of person he is.
Terrence Howard
#60. I like women who look like me. Generally, you're attracted to women who look like you, because the most beautiful thing in nature is your own reflection.
Terrence Howard
#61. There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.
Terrence McNally
#62. If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed my family.
Terrence Howard
#63. Oh yeah people recognize me, but the craziest thing? I mean I've had the normal autographs ... but I had to sign a baby's carriage once. I thought that was weird, so yeah, I guess that's the craziest thing.
Terrence J
#64. I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.
Terrence McNally
#65. I've really learned to compartmentalize the different parts of my life. I work really hard.
Terrence J
#67. When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.
Terrence Howard
#68. I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.
Terrence Howard
#69. When you feel betrayed by someone that you trust the most, as an actor, you look for something that's going to let you express some of your inner emotions and anger.
Terrence Howard
#70. The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.
Terrence E. Deal
#72. Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.
Terrence McNally
#73. We are so busy attempting to manage the result that we fail simply to run the race.
Terrence Real
#74. It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life.
Terrence Howard
#76. I knew that one movie could either kill my career or give birth to it. It's the same thing with Nelson. If you fail at Nelson [movie about nelson Mandela], you don't get to comeback and say, 'Well, I was trying. Let me do it again.' There are no re-takes.
Terrence Howard
#77. And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.
Terrence Howard
#78. My father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.
Terrence Howard
#79. The rule that surpasses all rules is that you must be connected, willing to see what's in front of you, and willing to move if what you're doing isn't working.
Terrence Real
#80. I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold.
Terrence Howard
#81. What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage.
Terrence Rafferty
#83. I'm damn near 37 years old, and I'm jumping up and down on the bed like my 10-year-old. I was a wild man
Terrence Howard
#84. ...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.
Terrence Real
#85. Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
Terrence Howard
#86. You can't take people's opinions personally. Usually what people say about it is a reflection of them own issues.
Terrence J
#88. Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
Terrence Malick
#89. I fell in love with radio once I started working there, and I never stopped.
Terrence J
#90. I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize.
Terrence Howard
#92. To navigate in a world without value is to be without rudder or destination, and yet without science, we navigate blind. To many, apparently, blindness is preferable.
Terrence W. Deacon
#93. There are a lot of millionaires being created in China. We should all be seeking that business, and I think there's enough to go around.
Terrence Lanni
#94. Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.
Terrence E. Deal
#95. Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind.
Terrence Howard
#96. What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?
Terrence Malick
#97. Payment or financial support provided to ministers, pastors, church conferences, and religious organizations should be considered gifts.
Terrence Jameson
#98. I don't believe in premarital sex. It enabled me to date three or four women at the same time, because as long as I wasn't having sex with them, I could always just walk away.
Terrence Howard
#99. All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.
Terrence Howard
#100. And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I one day hope to move to the brain.
Terrence Howard
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