Larger Than Life Quotes - Page 4

• I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some unnamed prize committee, only he lets us know that it's all a wry game.

  Randall Mann

  Sadness, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It was actually a lot more helpful to have Calvin Hart, a cop, as my template. He was also my technical advisor on Shaft. This time, I kinda got to go to Jersey City with him, and hang around, and watch him interact with other cops, people in the projects, and see what it means to be him. People call him 'Big Daddy' and he's this larger-than-life hero to a lot of people.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Hero, Mean, Cities

  "Green Eggs and Sam". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• There are a lot of discussions where people will decide that James Bond is a superhero, because he's a larger-than-life hero who beats the bad guys by doing larger-than-life things. And I don't think that's a useful definition.

  Kurt Busiek

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.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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• 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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• 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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• [Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had.

  Jay Roach

  Giving, Guy, Range

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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

  Nicole Krauss

  Expression, Understood

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• Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.

  Don DeLillo

  People

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.319, Pan Macmillan

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• I think that sometimes the whole larger-than-life gay thing is just another kind of closet. It's easier to be different if you're very different, if you go all-out on purpose. Because that way you can still hide who you really are.

  Lili Wilkinson

  Gay, Thinking, Different

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• Larger than life itself, and I can’t even believe this striking creature was once a little bit mine.

  Katy Evans

  Believe, Littles, Creatures

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• He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

  Orson Scott Card

  Soldier, Too Much, Burden

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.349, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

  Kurt Busiek

  Drama, Superhero, Aspect

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2001.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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