Top 1200 Larger Than Life Quotes & Sayings

In modern life, we hide behind ourselves. In Shakespeare, there's nowhere left to hide. It's life, larger than life, and every actor has to raise their game to get there.

Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.

When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.

My films are larger than life.

When the economic pie grows larger, it's always possible for everyone to have a larger slice than before. So it's really in all of our interest to make the economic pie larger by eliminating waste whenever and wherever possible.

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.

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

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.

I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Sometimes, photographs live in our hearts as unborn ghosts and we survive not because their shadows find permanence there, but because that thing that is larger than us, larger than the things we can point to, remember and claim, escorts us from dark into light.

Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey.

It's always great to play parts that are larger than life.

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

I want to be a larger-than-life superstar who is known worldwide, outside of the WWE.

Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

You know those people in life who are a bit eccentric and larger than life or a bit odd? That their realm of possibility around them is larger than somebody who's called normal? What's normal for an oddball? They could start screaming in public. That's fun to play.

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

You don't have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself.

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.

In sports entertainment, you can be larger than life.

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

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

People don't have the opportunity to be larger than life anymore - they're afraid of seeing it on the Internet.

I need a hero, I'm holding out for at hero 'till the end of the night He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast And he's gotta be fresh from the fight I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the morning light He's gotta be sure and it's gotta be soon And he's gotta be larger than life, larger than life

MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.

With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.

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

I believe the audience likes to see well-defined characters on screen than just larger-than-life heroes.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

With larger-than-life films, you are lifted from your mundane, ordinary life because you empathise with the hero, and people see themselves in him.

Mike Tyson has become larger than life.

Bollywood marketing is larger-than-life. Honestly, it amuses me.

To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

My dad had such a cool job. When you're a voiceover actor, it's a whole different skill - you're bringing these huge, larger-than-life monsters and characters to life. And, also, you have to learn accents.

To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.

America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.

I'm not larger than life, my personality is not larger than life, I promise you. But when I fight I am larger than life, I promise you that.

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.

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

Love is larger than life.

America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.

When I was doing larger than life roles in action entertainers they weren't clicking.

Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport

I want to do action which is larger than life but has a touch of reality.

The thing about Texas is that it's a little larger than life.

Trump is larger than life.

I have a tendency to be larger than life.

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

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

There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is other and larger than our own, yet which is most truly our own. For, to be ourselves, we must be more than ourselves. What we call love is, in truth . . . the losing of our individual selves to gain a larger self.

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.