Quotes About Tension

Whenever you scream there is a lot of mixed feelings of excitement and fear. In fear when you scream, psychologically, you feel relieved.

Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

Whenever you go up 2-0, you understand that teams are going to be desperate.

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

Drama starts where logic ends.

The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.

My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was Shiite, and you would whisper, 'Hey,' or you would see someone at the mosque, and you'd be like, 'Hey, that kid's Shiite!' There was a lot of tension, a lot of violence in Karachi between Shiites and Sunnis.

There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

During my years in the Navy and in the White House, I was involved in assessing how a war with Iran would go. In summary: It would be ugly.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

As prime minister, Hariri did not directly confront Hezbollah or the Syrians, but conflict simmered nonetheless.

I find fight scenes actually more interesting, in a way, than chase scenes because you're watching your character go through this problem-solving process and fight the antagonist mano-a-mano. It's more powerful, more emotional.

Producers get very jittery about things.

She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him.

Everybody handles pressure differently.

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

The enemies of peace have not disappeared.

I think for the disaster to work and the drama to work, you really need to feel like you're really in that world.

We never discuss race in this country until something bad happens.

The safest period of my lifetime was the Cold War, when Europe was more sharply divided than ever.

I know Chicago cops. They're tough. They have to be. The whole city would explode. It's like a bomb, Chicago.

Explosions are not comfortable.