Pat McGrath

I knew I wasn't going to make money in the beginning, so I found another way to support myself - I was a receptionist. It's quite smart to work that way. Otherwise, you get vicious and desperate, and no one wants to work with you. Build your career slowly; then people start to trust you and pay you well.

Sean Bean

I never try and play a bad guy to be bad and to be brutal and to be nasty and vicious, because I think you're going to be very cliche there. You know, you've got to find the truth in that character and what he believes in. It just happens that, you know, he's wrong.

English Actor

Charlize Theron

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

South African Actress

Iyanla Vanzant

Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.

American Author

Vitali Klitschko

A lot of people want to see a last fight, but I am now engaged in a different fight - one that is much harder, much more vicious, and much more important to me. I am fighting for democracy and fighting for Ukraine.

Ukrainian Politician

Don Rickles

I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.

American Comedian

Kell Brook

When I was drinking I was thinking I was having a good time but it came back twice as bad, the depression. It was just a vicious circle - drinking, not caring about myself - and it gave me a bad low.

British Athlete

Michael Caine

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

Todd Solondz

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.

American Writer

Bill Duke

AIDS is a very, very, very vicious disease, particularly in the black community.

American Actor

Describes actions or feelings that are not just cruel, but intensely hostile.

Intense Hostility

Implies behavior that goes far beyond being mean, suggesting extreme aggression.

Beyond Mean

Contrasts with light-hearted teasing or play; 'vicious' implies real intent to harm.

Not Light-Hearted

Emphasizes deliberate intention to cause emotional or reputational harm.

Deliberate Hurt

Highlights the difference between constructive criticism and vicious attacks.

Not Constructive

Always used to describe actions filled with negative intent, never accidental harm.

Mean-Spirited Intent

Highlights the severe, often devastating, impact or aftereffects.

Extreme Negative Impact

Indicates that the effects are not just harmful but could lead to serious deterioration.

Gravely Harmful

Used when the consequences are much worse than what one would normally expect.

Amplified Consequences

 take penguins and actually push them into my camera I think she thought the camera was my mouth which is every photographer's dream this went on for four days so here I came to Antarctica to photograph this potentially vicious animal to have this predator this top predator in Antarctica take care of me and nurture me and feed me for four days

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 This policy is designed to ensure aid goes to those who need it most. But it also means people lose access as soon as they earn more than the qualification threshold, regardless of whether or not they're financially stable enough to stay there. This vicious cycle is harmful to both those in poverty and those outside of it.

Why is it so hard to...

 and had to be rescued by a life guard. And in a study done in Canada, researchers planted the false memory that when you were a kid, something as awful as being attacked by a vicious animal happened to you, succeeding with about half of their subjects.

How reliable is your...

 did not endear me to the faculty. In effect, a vicious cycle of fear, avoidance, mistrust and misunderstanding had been established, and this was a battle in which I felt powerless and incapable of establishing any kind of peace or reconciliation.

The voices in my head PIPE...

 indicating that gold smuggling is happening on a massive scale, without ever being subject to taxes. All of this creates a vicious cycle, forcing a continued reliance on the corporations that helped create the situation in the first place.

The true cost of gold - ...

 to help weather the expected decline in demand. That can lead to a vicious cycle as cost cuts eventually lower wages, leading to even lower demand. Even policy designed to help prevent recessions can contribute.

What causes an economic...

 and locking them into our particularly vicious brand of chattel slavery, and laws that gave even the poorest white people benefits, not big benefits in material terms but the right to not be enslaved for life,

The lie that invented...

 the laziest of big cats Lions will often sleep for up to 20 hours a day but with the constant threat of rivals on the horizon resident males have to keep an eye out and will viciously protect their

When Lions Work...

 attack his reaction changes his eyes become vicious he shakes some things sometimes I'm afraid Elena believes evil has descended upon her son he claims not to remember what happens during his

Exorcism PIPE National...

 it would be a vicious cycle but I know better I know about your rough edges and I've seen your perfect curves I will fit into whatever spaces you let me if loving you means getting dirty

Vicious

Very cruel or violent.

Often appears as...

Showing an intention or wish to hurt someone or something very badly.

Often appears as...

Extremely severe or harmful in effects.

Often appears as...

Intense Hostility

Beyond Mean

Not Light-Hearted

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