Terrence Quotes & Sayings

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow. — Terrence Howard

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

I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys. — Faye Dunaway

First, a school with a strong, shared sense of mission is more likely to initiate improvement efforts. Second, norms of collegiality are related to collaborative planning and effective decision making. Third, cultures with a strong dedication to improvement are more likely to implement complex new instructional strategies. Finally, schools improve best when small successes are recognized and celebrated through shared ceremonies commemorating both individual and group contributions (Louis, 1994; Fullan, 1998; Abplanalp, 2008). — Terrence E. Deal

Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it's like something you dreamed earlier. — Terrence Howard

The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school. — Terrence E. Deal

In any story where solutions to mysteries are found, there should always be at least one mystery which remains unsolved. — Sean Terrence Best

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

You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done. — Terrence Howard

It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life. — Terrence Howard

Sustaining relationships with others requires a good relationship to ourselves. Healthy self-esteem is an internal sense of worth that pulls one neither into 'better than' grandiosity nor 'less than' shame. — Terrence Real

When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there. — Terrence Howard

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

I fell in love with radio once I started working there, and I never stopped. — Terrence J

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

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

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

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

The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife. — Terrence Howard

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

It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't been able to quite compete as I'm accustomed to. At this point, I just really want to enjoy it and put it all on the line when I'm out there. — Terrence Trammell

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

There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them. — Terrence McNally

If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align. — Terrence J

So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me. — Terrence Howard

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

The paradox of real love is that our capacity to sustain intimacy rests on our capacity to tolerate aloneness inside the relationship. — Terrence Real

I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job. — Terrence Howard

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor. — Terrence Howard

Athena, Demeter, Andromeda, Cassiopeia ~ dearest thoughtful Svetlana, your glorious angelic light outshines the entire goddess pantheon of Mount Olympus, , your radiant splendor surpasses the luminous sunsets of a thousand distant worlds, , in all my galactic travels you are the only star whose elegant sway has the power to swing me into orbit, , may our cosmic dance last forever, , may our mutual tidal gravity eternally signal our telepathic presence in each others soulful wandering lives — Sean Terrence Best

...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them. — Terrence Real

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

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything. — Terrence Malick

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

Terrence Long was born on 2/29/1976. — Jack Chesterfield

For spirits like ours, freedom is consumption, transportation on beams of sun — Terrence Alonzo Craft

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

I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it. — Terrence Howard

Believing is seeing. It's much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing. — Terrence E. Deal

I prefer working behind the camera. — Terrence Malick

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

We are so busy attempting to manage the result that we fail simply to run the race. — Terrence Real

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

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

As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure. — Terrence Real

I've really learned to compartmentalize the different parts of my life. I work really hard. — Terrence J

We must be the dog that guards the house. We must be the bark and the bite. — Terrence Hayes

I'm back there again, broken from being a champion,
The boy that no one loved,
The years I spent training like a method actor to
Become the man that everyone admired,
But it means nothing,
Like ashes on a forehead, they marked me inferior,
When I was still young enough to receive it into the grain of my being — Terrence Alonzo Craft

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

If you want to make a mark you have to take a risk. — Terrence E. Deal

you sit across from me in the garden,
pretending that you have to leave shortly,

I know, as always, you want me to play the fool,
and ask, Am I keeping you?

Yes.

Well, if so, then
can I keep you?

This is the paradigm of us. We are civilization and paradise, but
We are Armageddon, and wastelands. — Terrence Alonzo Craft

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

The nuns taught us there are two ways through life, the way of Nature and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow.
Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries.
Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it. And love is smiling through all things. — Terrence Malick

...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other. — Terrence Real

Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They summon the human spirit. — Terrence E. Deal

It is a privilege to be recognized by FDLA. I am a staunch believer that as a member of the Bar, we have the great privilege to represent clients in all facets of our practice, and that includes making the commitment to represent clients for whom access to representation and ultimately justice is limited by economics. As all of the 20 for 20 honorees have done, stepping up to meet that commitment is at the heart of what it means to be a lawyer. I hope the inspiring stories and contributions of my fellow honorees will shine a bright light on FDLA and this most important mission. — Terrence J

I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold. — Terrence Howard

Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them. — Terrence Real

To another extent, always there, undeniable but — Terrence Holt

A Separation is another film that I think is extraordinary, and one of those things that feels like it's from another planet, much like Terrence Malick's movies did: at a certain point, you feel like he's an alien from another planet telling us and looking at us and showing us how we are. I also really, really love Jerry McGuire. — Jake Gyllenhaal

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

Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish. — Terrence McNally

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

In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas. — Terrence McNally

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

On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon - son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First Family; descendent of Terrence Jaxon, signatory of the One Law; great-great-nephew of the one known as Auntie, Last of the First; Peter of Souls, the Man of Days and the One Who Stood - took his position on the catwalk above Main Gate, waiting to kill his brother. — Justin Cronin

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make. — Terrence Malick

I love film and I love sitcoms, and I was one of those kids that would just go to the movies on the weekend and spend my whole weekend watching all of the movies. — Terrence J

When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public. — Terrence Malick

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

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

The bonds of silence and protection run deeper, for the moment, than his trust in me. — Terrence Real

Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair. — Terrence Real

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges. — Terrence J

The most important thing I can teach my kids is that you can't put your value in looks. Presence is based upon magnitude. You can pretend to have an air about you but it is quickly deflated, you cannot deflate presence. Presence walks into a room and surrounds and fills anything that's in that room without trying to demand it, it takes over. It can come from a smile. Like I said, love makes you beautiful. What is beautiful radiates. — Terrence Howard

Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man. — Terrence Malick

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know. — Terrence Howard

Payment or financial support provided to ministers, pastors, church conferences, and religious organizations should be considered gifts. — Terrence Jameson

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

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

Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to be as truthful and specific as we can make it. The minute we think that we're reaching more people and pleasing them, we get general. And audiences sense that and turn away, shun us. — Terrence McNally

And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good. — Terrence Howard

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

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

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

When you're on a Terrence Malick film, it's like you're part of a family. — Jessica Chastain

'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

I always find heroes who are just like me,
I forget they're only human, and like me, broken — Terrence Alonzo Craft

Does tension exist between our perfect longings and the imperfect world? — Terrence Real

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

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along. — Terrence Howard

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart. — Terrence McNally

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

The romantic vision promises 'shadowless' relationships, but it is precisely by wrestling with the relationship's shadow, with disillusionment, that deep intimacy is sustained. — Terrence Real

Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I was rudely awakened from that fantasy when he directed it as if he loathed it ... Work with good actors. A good actor hears the way you (and no one else) write. A good actor makes rewrites easy. A good actor tells you things about your play you didn't know. — Terrence McNally

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

Baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh ... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come. — Terrence Mann

We'd all like to see our poems walking alone in the world. Like children reared to be independent adults. Some parents raise a child conservatively (that is, with no exposure to the darker things awaiting them beyond the door), but you can see how that's a mistake right? There's no way to know how best to prepare a child for the future. No way to know how to write a publishable poem -- I'm not saying safe poems don't get published. Or that sheltered children can't succeed. Just that you write the best poems you can and send them out. Sometimes they return home weeping. Sometimes they make their own way. — Terrence K. Hayes

Going from college to being on national TV almost fresh outta school, it happened really fast. — Terrence J

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