Best 125 quotes in «cliche quotes» category

I miss the cast and crew of Supernatural immensely. I know it's a cliche to say your cast and crew are like your family, but it's really the case there.

It's become almost a cliche at this point that movies in the general sense are the place you go for superheroes and explosions and TV is where you go for actual storytelling.

I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along

It's a cliche that filmmaking is a team sport. However, let me say just say it again: filmmaking is a team sport.

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

Most of my cliches aren't original.

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.

Puppets and dolls are the gateways between human beings and objects. There are tons of cliches to spout about puppetry and animism, the primacy of the object, attacking anthropocentric worldviews, etc, and while there were always puppets around, I started working with them to deal with the times I knew I wouldn't be able to collaborate with other humans, to have a team.

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.

That’s the problem with heartbreak, to you it’s like an atomic bomb but to the world it’s just a cliche because in the end we all have the same experience.

The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.

The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.

The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset.

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.

The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.

The ground swell is what’s going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are clichés also, of course, and I’m sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

The more you give, the more you get - it’s a cliché, but it’s really true.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.

The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, "Oh, these are cliches, we've seen this before, just hits every checkpoint." All of that takes a secondary status for me if I'm reading something and I just really like the characters.

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original.

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.

This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

As a rule of thumb, I'd say one cliché per [Romance]--and then be damn sure you can make it work. But if you're going to try to write the virginal amnesiac twin disguised as a boy mistaken for the mother (or father depending how well the disguise works) of a secret baby, honey, you better have some serious skills. Or seek therapy.

When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

You are who you surround yourself with. I know that's such a cliche quote, but it's true.

You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.

As an opener, I'd like to state that elves are certainly NOT cliché. It doesn't matter if they all have pointy ears, or they all live a long time, or even if they all like forests. It doesn't matter if they're short or tall or both. It doesn't matter if they're related to forest spirits or even angels. Regardless of how many elves are like one another or how many elves appear in how many books, elves are NOT cliché. Why? Well, for one, an elf is a creature. How can a creature be a cliché? Is a human cliché? They certainly do appear in a lot of books! How about dragons? Now there's a popular subject! Are dragons cliché as well? Well what about vampires too? Or werewolves? Or bats? Or rabbits? Or mice? Or owls? Or crows? Cats??

What is a change-maker? What has Hillary Clinton changed? It is filled with all the cliches that New Agers and leftists glom on to, like "common sense gun control legislation." But it never was defined.

Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.