I think I am generally prone to exaggerating characters…

Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of get deeper…

— Charlie Jane Anders

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

— Angela Bassett

You don't know how many times I fell just taking ridiculous small steps.

— Alex Zanardi

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

— China Mieville

No matter how you feel about your extended family or family gatherings you will be attending. This is because now the ultimate reason for…

— Jim Gaffigan

I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

— Robert Kiyosaki

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

— Harry S. Truman

“Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go looking for…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is not supposed…

— Nat Hentoff

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do the broads…

— Don Rickles

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the…

— Sophia Amoruso

In the age of social media, everyone's a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel.

— Charlie Brooker