Quotes About Exaggeration

Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take the reality and exaggerate it.

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.

A lot of times, you watch a trailer for something, and then by the time you get to see the actual movie or show, you realize that the best parts were in the trailer.

Many of the traits in my characters are exaggerations of things I see in myself. But in 'How Should a Person Be?' I wasn't trying to write about myself so much as a combination of myself and these women I was seeing in our culture.

Next its gonna be jump off a cliff day.

I can't believe the phone has its own room!

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Did you know that there are $4,000 washing machines? Seriously. If a washer is $4,000 I want it to get the laundry out of my room and bring it back folded after it made me coffee told me it likes my hair.

There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and I say not in the least.

"Entourage" is a staple LA-based show and people say it's pretty real and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth.

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.

Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.