I have done a few roles that I've never watched, and if I happen to be flicking through channels and one pops up, I quickly move on. It's hard enough to sustain some self confidence without being reminded of things we'd rather not revisit but, in the end, it comes with the territory.


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DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.
TERRY PRATCHETT
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Li...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—species...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look alon...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the mus...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Don't worry, it's not loaded.
TERRY KATH
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
TERRY PRATCHETT
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darknes...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and...
TERRY PRATCHETT
No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and hom...
TERRY PRATCHETT
"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"<...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended....
TERRY PRATCHETT
Conceived as a short-term remedy to the occasional ailment of acute labour shortages in key industri...
TERRY GLAVIN
When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other ...
TERRY BRADSHAW
I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is grow...
TERRY PRATCHETT
I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.
TERRY SOUTHERN
As far back as Iran's aborted 'Green Revolution' in 2009, Obama's supplications to I...
TERRY GLAVIN
A notorious network of violent Islamist hoodlums, concentrated in the rough-and-tumble district of M...
TERRY GLAVIN
Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain...
TERRY SOUTHERN
What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a...
TERRY WOGAN
Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every...
JOHN TERRY
I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the pr...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS
Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what mig...
TERRY TEACHOUT
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
TERRY PRATCHETT
There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from differ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Al...
TERRY PRATCHETT
It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and th...
TERRY PRATCHETT
My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my...
TERRY WOGAN
I'm going to announce in the very near future, I'm going to lead by example and start paying...
TERRY BRANSTAD
Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
TERRY GILLIAM
Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwid...
TERRY TEACHOUT
The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.
TERRY BRADSHAW
Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv...
TERRY BROOKS
It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, t...
TERRY GLAVIN
I could've ended up in action films forever. But the comedy thing has been my forte.
TERRY CREWS
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, shoul...
TERRY EAGLETON
Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, bu...
TERRY SAVAGE
It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being o...
TERRY RILEY
Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.
TERRY RILEY
By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that...
TERRY PRATCHETT
My thing is you're only as good as the people you work with. I've been blessed to work with ...
TERRY CREWS
When someone can, on a worldwide level, make someone laugh, that's power. A lot my heroes - Eddi...
TERRY CREWS
I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ...
TERRY BROOKS