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I did theatrical caricatures. -- Martin Landau
In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures. -- Jeffery Deaver
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. -- H. L. Mencken
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. -- Walt Disney
No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own. -- Franz Grillparzer
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. -- Michael J. Fox
Caricature is rough truth. -- George Meredith
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office. -- David K. Shipler
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. -- Walt Disney
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work. -- Martin Fleischmann
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. -- Joseph Conrad
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. -- Ernest Hemingway
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature. -- Bernard Berenson
I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews. -- Mia Kirshner
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. -- George Santayana
For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it. -- Carl Barks
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals. -- Walt Disney
I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you. -- Radha Mitchell
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor. -- Rosa Luxemburg
I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself. -- Poppy Montgomery
Caricatures are an important part of our culture of debate. They should defuse political spats through humor and irony. It is about making a strong statement but softening it with a wink. So Danes do not get too upset about caricatures. None of us is interested in insulting Muslims. -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point. -- David Axelrod
I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny. -- Mayim Bialik
Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy. -- Michel Onfray
Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities. -- Essence Atkins
Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues. -- Mitchell Reiss
Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures. -- Douglas Booth
He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really. -- Simon Callow
I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community. -- Abhishek Bachchan
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies. -- James Surowiecki
When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character. -- Ashton Kutcher
A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to. -- Hayden Schlossberg
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail. -- Jon Meacham
When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety. -- Bil Keane
I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person. -- Alison Jackson
They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them. -- Guy Ritchie
Old age makes caricatures of us all. -- P. D. James
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms. -- Aldous Huxley
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves. -- John Irving
Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us. -- Criss Jami
In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures. -- Sarah Silverman
Some people are caricatures of themselves, and some people keep people coming back and keep themselves growing. Otherwise, the fans would get bored. -- Bonnie Raitt
[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits. -- Umberto Eco
I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures. -- Sharlto Copley
If I retire doing the character, I don't think the character has to retire. There will still be caricatures of Elvira. You know, Dracula still works, and he's dead. -- Cassandra Peterson
Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell]. -- Charlie Munger
I find it very stupid that teenagers could only see caricatures of teenagers but they couldn't see films that you try to be a truthful context, a truthful portrayal of teenagers. -- Alfonso Cuaron

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