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Johnny Cash has always been larger than life. -- Kris Kristofferson
Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians. -- Jessica Savitch
You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses. -- Joe Klein
You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities. -- Joe Klein
I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated. -- Cat Stevens
I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem. -- Bette Davis
Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains. -- Mike Caro
Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life. -- Bette Davis
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. -- Chinua Achebe
I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life. -- Dave Grohl
Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness. -- Laurence Olivier
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier. -- Orlando Bloom
In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life. -- Paul Newman
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America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these. -- Simon Hoggart
All of the larger than life questions about our presence here on earth and what gifts we have to offer are spiritual questions. To seek answers to these questions is to seek a sacred path. -- Lauren Artress
People think that we're crazy because we do six nights a week. I would physically not be able to take it, especially when you see how much he put into every show... He created this larger than life style and he pulled it off. -- Rob Thomas
I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality. -- Freida Pinto
Voshak's hair, a pale blond braid, which he bleached, was his trademark. It made him memorable. That's how the slavers operated. They adopted costumes and personas, trying to make themselves larger-than-life and hoping to inspire fear. They counted on that fear. One could fight a man, but nobody could fight a nightmare. -- Ilona Andrews
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image. -- Barbara Corcoran
I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the first row with no heads in front of mine, and become one with the screen. I always stay for the complete credits so I can linger in the film's story just a little longer. -- Pamela Yates
My films are larger than life. -- Rohit Shetty
Hollywood large is so different than real-life large. -- Jordin Sparks
I write larger than life. It's what I do. -- James Patterson
I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe. -- Adam Levine
Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population. -- Tom Hanks
With television, you can make anyone look larger than life. -- Robert Dallek
Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy. -- Heston Blumenthal
I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect. -- Kurt Busiek
How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived? -- Edgar Lee Masters
Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life. -- Nicolas Cage
I want to do action which is larger than life but has a touch of reality. -- Sunny Deol
I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.' -- Bharati Mukherjee
I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour. -- Maynard James Keenan
I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among people like that. -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself. -- Carrie Underwood
Love is larger than life. -- Wayne Coyne
I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93) -- Stephen Levine
It's always great to play parts that are larger than life. -- Vanessa Hudgens
Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death. -- Don DeLillo
...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life? -- Nicole Krauss
Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed. -- Reba McEntire
Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one. -- Sarah McLachlan
To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self. -- Will Durant
Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection. -- Mariah Nelson
You don't have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself. -- Mitt Romney
There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events. -- Ram Dass
To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it. -- Shimon Peres
Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways. -- Kiki Smith
Larger than life itself, and I canâ??t even believe this striking creature was once a little bit mine. -- Katy Evans
Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life. -- Helen McCloy
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
[Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had. -- Jay Roach
Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling. -- James Altucher
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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us. -- Anne Lamott
Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre' subject. -- Isabel Bishop
It's funny how the littlest things can make you feel larger than life; the right lyric, the most heartfelt melody, the clearest message. Love. -- Alex Gaskarth
A weak, insecure nation needs sporting heroes, players larger than life on the cricketing field, who can transcend the limitations of their country and team. -- Shashi Tharoor
Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love. -- Leslie Easterbrook
The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life. -- Marianne Williamson
I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different. -- Gale Anne Hurd
I think that's probably the most devastating thing - when someone who is larger than life winds up a shadow of themselves in a hospital bed. -- Jodi Picoult
People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered. -- Peace Pilgrim
Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too. -- Preity Zinta
You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person. -- Benjamin Walker
Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone. -- John McCain
The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources. -- Tom Allen
It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing. -- Gary Oldman
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince and a soldier. -- Orlando Bloom
I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element. -- Kenneth Branagh
What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction. -- Guy Ritchie
I like playing interesting people, I like playing slightly twisted people. I like playing people who have large appetites who are kind of a bit larger than life. -- Ron Perlman
A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life. -- Vannevar Bush
I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. -- Chinua Achebe
George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too. -- Stephen Malkmus
I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life. -- Julie Doucet
I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable, so they wanted to balance the ticket. -- Mike Pence
I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality. -- Elton John
Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader. -- Ray Stevenson
It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero. -- Akshay Kumar
Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world. -- Sacha Baron Cohen
All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life. -- Garrison Keillor
"Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb." And I don't think that's a useful definition. That's more a dismissal. -- Kurt Busiek
I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that! -- Vanilla Ice
any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life. -- Deborah Tannen
I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and heartbreakingly real at the same time. I don't know how she does it. -- Julia Quinn
My dad had such a cool job. When you're a voiceover actor, it's a whole different skill - you're bringing these huge, larger-than-life monsters and characters to life. And, also, you have to learn accents. -- Ashley Bell

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