Quotes About Exaggeration

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.

It's my job to be ridiculous.

Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.

If you want to sell a film, you have to make it in an exaggerated way. Otherwise, you have to make it for your own satisfaction.

The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

I can overact in two seconds.

Pageant makeup is so different from your day-to-day look. When you're on stage you really have to pack it on.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

It is not an exaggeration to identify the flight of the radical left to 'antifascism' as the most successful maneuver of language politics in the twentieth century.

George Watson MacGregor Reid was a highly eccentric character, prone to exaggeration and passionate enthusiasms. An ardent socialist all his life, he campaigned for dockers' rights in New York, before returning to England to promote the ideas of natural health, fairer distribution of wealth and the freedom to worship at Stonehenge.

An exaggerated clitoris might even drive a woman to an elephant.' This remark – unprecedented in the courts of British justice – elicited loud laughter.

The man uttering these words had a face like the Golem of Prague and a barrel-shaped body that belonged on a beer cart. He wore a short leather coat and a cap with a peak that grew straight out of his forehead. He had ears like an Indian elephant, a mustache like a toilet brush, and more chins than the Shanghai telephone directory

You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.

He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.

I passionately believe if you put on an act, the audience will be able to tell. That does not mean that I am going to be talking in top volume all the time in private conversations... Clearly, broadcasting has to be an extension of yourself; it's an exaggerated version of you.

The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.

Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message: Is this person happy? Angry? Fearful? Individual faces may vary greatly, but a smirk on one is a lot like a smirk on another. Smirks are conceptual, not pictorial. Our brains are like cartoonists - and cartoonists are like our brains, simplifying and exaggerating, subordinating facial detail to abstract comic concepts.

He wrote, You're being crazy.     You're going to catch a cold. I already have a cold. You are going to catch a colder.

Per il candore e la semplicità della sua vita, c'è chi lo giudica un angelo; è una pietosa esagerazione, poiché non c'è uomo che sia esente da colpa.