“Saw everything larger than life size, with the outlines blurred, in a golden mist of sentimentality.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I think we always look up to legends and people who not only win but give us a larger than life role… — Dani Alves Copy Share Image
Comedy and sci-fi are two areas where you can be larger than life, without the charge of overacting. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
I like to create characters that are larger than life. But it's funny because I do a lot of bad guys, and… — Peter Stormare Copy Share Image
I like playing interesting people, I like playing slightly twisted people. I like playing people who have large appetites who are kind… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
"Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb."… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
The Hoff has become larger than life, so I can't do anything small any more. If I mess up, it becomes big… — David Hasselhoff Copy Share Image
If what that man did in his life, makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them believe deeper… — The Ultimate Warrior Copy Share Image
Every man's heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in… — The Ultimate Warrior Copy Share Image
It was actually a lot more helpful to have Calvin Hart, a cop, as my template. He was also my technical advisor… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
“What makes someone mythic is not whether or not he lived, or lived well, but whether or not he was larger than… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“An ordinary teacher teaches how to accumulate information. A good teacher teaches how to assimilate information. A great teacher teaches how to… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Joan Crawford and Bette Davis are larger than life. They just are. They sucked all the oxygen out of a room: they're… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
Albert Brooks. Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Larry David. The best comedic actors play broad and real simultaneously, coming across as both larger than life… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
In modern life, we hide behind ourselves. In Shakespeare, there's nowhere left to hide. It's life, larger than life, and every actor… — Ray Fearon Copy Share Image
Character is everything. The reason people watch sports entertainment is to see people who are larger than life, but at the same… — John Morrison Copy Share Image
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see… — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share 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. — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
People always remark on how I'm not as tall as I look in film. I tell them about the time I saw… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable,… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
American films look at films with a larger than life attitude while the French films look at life as it is. — Priyadarshan Copy Share Image
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… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
We used to approach a small 400-person show like an arena show, as if I was a star and I was coming… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
“It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You know those people in life who are a bit eccentric and larger than life or a bit odd? That their realm… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
“My life's been filled with adventures, and truths often become larger than life when they're retold. I never correct the tales that… — Anthony Rudel Copy Share Image
All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
“A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
That's just me wanting that supernatural tool to tell a story and also not wanting to be restricted by reality, with how… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
We are always larger than life because we come from this mentality that since we are a very poor nation, we need… — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
This new crop of actors, they're larger than life people. I don't think that this generation has the same following that the… — Stephen Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
Hollywood is the kind of town that likes to make everything larger than life: movie premieres, aging actress' lips, and murders. Actors… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
“If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach… — Laurence Oliver Copy Share Image
![“A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him." [ An Invitation to Learning , January 1942]” quote by Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9fb/rex-stout-2846_characters_a-dickens-character-to-me-is-a-theatrica_1292870.png)
