Larger Than Life Quotes - Page 4

• For Bryan [Cranston ] to go back in time and become this larger-than-life and somewhat theatrical guy, who performed his ideas and rhetoric in public in a melodic and flashy way, was a bit of a risk.

  Jay Roach

  Ideas, Guy, Risk

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• This new crop of actors, they're larger than life people. I don't think that this generation has the same following that the last one had. You don't say "you've got to see his movie, you've got to see her movie" any more.

  Stephen Humphrey Bogart

  Thinking, People, This Generation

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• It's always important to understand as filmmakers that we're not making a documentary and it has to look good. It has to entertain, because otherwise your audience will switch and watch another series. It has to look better and larger than life.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Important, Watches, Looks

  Source: www.dotwnews.com

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• George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Flames, Long, Personality

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.

  Philip Glass

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.

  Ray Stevenson

  Character, Jeans, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• "Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb." And I don't think that's a useful definition. That's more a dismissal.

  Kurt Busiek

  Thinking, Order, Superhero

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.

  Elton John

  Stars, Rocks, Individuality

  "A star is reborn". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2004.

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• Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

  Nicolas Cage

  Bigger Than Life, Actors, Elba

  "Nicolas Cage GHOST RIDER SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE On-Set Interview". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

  Tom Hanks

  Character, Population, World

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• To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

  Carrie Underwood

  Character, Acting, Video

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• I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Thinking, Media, Style

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• In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Past, Zest

  "A Bad Dream/A Masterpiece". Review of "The Moon in the Gutter" on September 19, 1983. "State of the Art". Book by Pauline Kael, p. 48, 1985.

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• I write larger than life. It's what I do.

  James Patterson

  Writing

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• ...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?

  Nicole Krauss

  Expression, Understood

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• any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

  Deborah Tannen

  Powerful, People, Criticism

  Deborah Tannen (1986). “That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others”, William Morrow & Co

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• Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.

  Helen McCloy

  California, Thunderstorm

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• [On 9/11:] ... those towers represented human triumph over nature. Larger than life, built to be unburnable, they were the Titanic of our day. For them to burn and fall so quickly means that the whole superstructure we depend upon to mitigate nature and assure our comfort and safety could fall.

  Starhawk

  Fall, Mean, Safety

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• You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

  Joe Klein

  Weakness, Politician, Life Strength

  "True colours" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2006.

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• if your subject is an actor, he or she will also be shorter in person than they appear onscreen. This, also, you must keep to yourself. Even if you think you are giving their lack of height a positive spin, you aren't. 'You always seem larger than life in photos, but it's nice to see that in person you're just like us' might seem like a compliment, but what a star hears is 'You're stumpy, and you will lose jobs to taller people.

  Jancee Dunn

  Jobs, Stars, Nice

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• The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.

  Frank Miller

  Real, Hero, Dark

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 5, 2001.

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• J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houstons newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.

  Hannah Storm

  Sports, Friday, Football

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• All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

  Garrison Keillor

  Fun, Real, Innovation

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• [Stanley] Kubrick was a fascinating, larger than life guy who had been a friend for many years prior to our working together on that film. I found the best part of working with him to be the long conversations we had between set-ups.

  Sydney Pollack

  Years, Long, Guy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I enjoy playing real human beings after playing a lot of larger than life characters. I love playing true to life characters and that is what I intend to do for the majority of my career.

  Michael Jai White

  Real, Character, Careers

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