Best 125 quotes in «cliche quotes» category

Heres the thing: If youre taking roles that arent intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of actors say, but if its not intimidating you, then why are you doing it?

His temperament is always there to be questioned because he plays on the edge. That is just the way he plays. It is a cliche but if you took that edge away from Wayne he wouldn't be the same player and I would rather have the Wayne Rooney we have now.

I'd discovered another of life's cliches by being with jude: the happier you are in life, the faster it passes you by.

If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?

I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.

I guess this is cliche, but I'd love to work with Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Diplo.

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.

If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. But artists don't address themselves to audiences; they create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others hear & are affected.

I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that's a cliche.

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.

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

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

Most of my cliches aren't original.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset.

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.