Zitat des Tages über Versteinert / Petrified:
I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.
I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only time that I've ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories over such a long time, and I was petrified that I'd get bored.
As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.
Alan Turing is so important to me and to the world, and his story is so important to be told, so it was a big thing to take up, and I was a little petrified. Like, who am I to write the Alan Turing story? He's one of the great geniuses of the 20th century - who was horribly persecuted for being gay - and I'm a kid from Chicago.
Much of America is petrified to bring up race, especially in public forums - the media, in particular.
Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.
Just as a fossil is 'petrified time,' so is an ancient artifact or text.
I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating.
Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees.
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.
Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial.
My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.
I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.
Nature is a petrified magic city.
Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're having to attend to it all day, and you're still petrified of so many things, such as, can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels, even though he had the softened California consonants.
I don't even like walking up a ladder; I'm petrified of heights.
I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.
I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic air traffic controller. I just don't. I want a guy down there who's just waiting for the worst crash possible and petrified that it's going to happen on his watch. And then I feel safe flying into his territory.