A Quote by Sybil Thorndike

It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts.

Sybil Thorndike

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Hysterical Only Parts People Play

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Sybil Thorndike
English - Actress
October 24, 1882 - June 9, 1976

People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.

Julia Child

You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, only hysteria is the thing that strikes a hysterical press as most worthy of note.

Stella Benson

We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet.

Christopher Buckley

The North Korean regime is extremely fiery, extremely insecure, sometimes hysterical. And when you're around somebody who's screaming and unstable, the last thing you want to do is add to the instability with your own unstable, hysterical rhetoric.

David Brooks

Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.

Richard M. Weaver

My family was always wondering why I ended up playing people who were mentally ill, insane, downtrodden, and a little crazy. I think what they don't understand is that most female parts are written basically as hysterical women.

Carrie Coon

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

River Phoenix

I'm not going to be the one who screams and yells at people, but the one who makes things hysterical.

Jonathan Cheban

There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence.

Corra May Harris

Baby, after considerable thought I've reached the conclusion that the only conceivable legitimate answer to the Universe as constituted is a peal of hysterical laughter.

Keith Laumer

'Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.

Lea Thompson

Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.

Lea Thompson

People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, 'They're not dying; they're just kind of reinventing themselves.'

Jared Kushner

Immigration enthusiasts are so hysterical.

Peter Brimelow

I play David Hasselhoff's secretary and she gets around a bit - it's quite a role. I end up in bed with Adam Sandler, It's so surreal it's hysterical . . I'm so excited. This is the biggest thing I have ever done, there's no comparison.

Sophie Monk

My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

Vladimir Nabokov

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