Top 130 Cliched Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
It may sound cliched, but 'Strictly' is a real journey. I try to encourage my partner to stay in as long as they can, but above all to enjoy it.
As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.
When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
It may sound cliched, but it just shows that when you don't let people put you in a box then anything can happen.
I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.
Touring doesn't have to be a harried, cliched way of life.
Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
This would sound cliched, but my parents have been my biggest support system.
What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.
I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.
It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.
What mistake all of us make when we are talking about a particular cricketer is that we say they are trying too much, the control is not there, there is no patience. These are cliched terms.
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.
I am a young girl, and I am open to dating, but at the risk of sounding cliched, I really don't have the time for it.
It may sound very cliched but seriously, since childhood I always wanted to be an actress.
I tick that cliched box of being the class clown. I've always done impressions and characters, so I'm very lucky that I get to do that as a career now.
I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.
I dread to be compared to all these directors who have a lot of spontaneous emoting and swearing in their films - that is death; it's a cul-de-sac. It doesn't lift the material at all. It's just a cliched reproduction of what we think is normal behaviour.
It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're boring, they don't mind that they're obvious, their point is made.
The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.
It sounds really cliched, but just be true to who you are.
It is going to sound cliched, but my husband has been incredibly helpful.
I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.
It is great that the industry is open to accepting character roles and moving away from the cliched Bollywood Hindi masala films.
It will sound very cliched but when I was kid I always wanted to be singer and never an actor.
I have a legion of friends and the best ones are my immediate family, which is very cliched but true.
The right seeks political victory at the ballot box - and that's just the way it's been. It's a bit cliched to say but the right, conservatives, work. They have jobs.
More than being a star, I want to be an actor. This may sound cliched but that is how it is.
So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.
I don't want to be cliched, but Buckingham Palace is beautiful, and the old red telephone booths are really interesting to me. I've always wanted to see those.
We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.
It's pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you're in the capital of the world.
Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.
There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they're engaged, and they're not distanced.
Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.
I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.
Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture.
I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.
I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and... well... it really sucked. It was a plotless, clichéd mess.
As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
Sounds cliched, but I can't survive without my calendar.
I don't want to go and play a cliched Indian girl.
I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I can take a portrait of.
It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.
I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.
People wanted me to become this cliched Keith Richards, Iggy Pop character. I wasn't expected to marry a beautiful wife and have kids.
My career has been far from cliched. I have always done unconventional roles and I am proud of all of them.
I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.
It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.
It's cliched but football has its own language.
That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.
You have to be willing to put everything you've got towards the project. That to me is very important. And it may not be part of the fad, being the clichéd kind of film that's going to be successful.
I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.
