Top 1200 Larger Than Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

the leader releases energy, unites energies, and all with the object not only of carrying out a purpose, but of creating further and larger purposes. And I do not mean here by larger purposes mergers or more branches; I speak of larger in the qualitative rather than the quantitative sense. I mean purposes which will include more of those fundamental values for which most of us agree we are really living.

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.

I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men.

I grew up in the seventies, and films for us were larger-than-life, masala entertainers.

Hulk Hogan was my reason for getting into the business. He was this larger-than-life entity.

I love to watch entertaining films with larger than life characters and hence enjoy making such kind of movies.

Since Mahadev' ended, I was waiting to play more larger than life characters.

Though I have done films like 'Siruthai' with larger-than-life characters, I have more of a guy-next-door image.

Once I decided to be a different person on stage, I got the chance to be larger than life and over the top, which I love.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life.

Guys who are larger than life and theatrical and deliciously unpredictable - they're far more interesting than the good guys most of the time. They have these psychological layers that an audience can really cling on to, become fascinated with, much more so than these true-blue, one-dimensional, square-jawed good guys.

Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.

Working with Dario [Argento] was a lot of fun. He's a larger-than-life character, and with an Italian accent.

When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.

There is a child in every man, and that's why larger-than-life stories which have a fairly tale component will work.

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

The fan support throughout the years, and the new generation, has made Zeppelin larger than life.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

A weak, insecure nation needs sporting heroes, players larger than life on the cricketing field, who can transcend the limitations of their country and team.

I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among people like that.

I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are all the dimensions of life. But politics is one among others.

Miss Earth, to me, means a lot more than an international beauty pageant. It implies a larger than life celebration of spirit, beauty, passion, and betterment.

Cinema is a larger-than-life representation. I wish to bring it to the small-screen.

One of the most popular MMA fighters ever, Kimbo was a charismatic, larger-than-life personality that transcended the sport.

Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.

George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.

George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.

Diamond Dallas Page didn't have that larger-than-life persona, but he had a different connection with the audience.

I was always looking for relatability, because I am not someone cut out for larger than life roles.

I am most attracted to characters and stories that I can relate to. The traditional formula of 'larger than life' I never found attractive.

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

What I like about Kannada cinema is that the stories are realistic, but told in grand, larger-than-life fashion.

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

Ranbir doesn't like to portray characters which are larger than life. I am very proud that he took such challenges.

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

Schwarzenegger is big, he's noisy, he's larger than life, and he's earned the credibility to be cast for the role of America's Green superhero.

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.

Larger-than-life roles have never excited me. I'd rather play someone real who goes through obstacles and becomes a hero.

I liked being in a smaller theater. I love doing shows of all sizes, but sometimes it's nice to be in a smaller space and to strip away some of the music so that you can be a little less than larger-than-life; you can be a little more naturalistic.

Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre' subject.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger - and there really has to be, because plainly you aren't sufficient to the situation.

Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.

I think that's probably the most devastating thing - when someone who is larger than life winds up a shadow of themselves in a hospital bed.

Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

The most out-there thing I’m saying is, ‘Don’t have babies. Don’t get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.

I think the idea of a heightened reality and then the fantasy that we're able to be swept up in, and then these larger than life heroes and the possibility of someone much more powerful than we are and greater, that can come and save the day, so to speak, is inspiring.

I think we always look up to legends and people who not only win but give us a larger than life role model... I think Michael Jordan is this, someone who became bigger than his sport.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.

True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that's mesmerizingly timeless.

Snoop Dogg has this larger than life image which is so not true because when you meet him in person he's so humble, loves his kids and enjoys his life.

Amazingly enough, athletic achievement is one of those things that seems larger than life at points. I think we all look to sport for inspirations.

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.