Cliche Quotations | Page 2

If there's anything I can't stand, it's the cliche of the female handler who's always talking through the radio with your player, telling you where to go and what to do with a sexy voice. It's such a horrible, horrible cliche. You just get so tired of it. It's like, is this all she's ever going to be?

I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being this cliche - a girl from L.A. who decides to be an actress.

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.

I have the utmost respect for synthesizers - Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that's become a cliche for the '80s.

The cliche is dead poetry.

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

I miss the cast and crew of Supernatural immensely. I know it's a cliche to say your cast and crew are like your family, but it's really the case there.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that's a cliche.

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?

I'd discovered another of life's cliches by being with jude: the happier you are in life, the faster it passes you by.

I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas out there, but it's the execution that really makes it work.

Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

Cliches are what make you understand something.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe" tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring.

Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work!

I feel like a cliche.

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

To move past fear is a cliche.

His temperament is always there to be questioned because he plays on the edge. That is just the way he plays.It is a cliche but if you took that edge away from Wayne he wouldn't be the same player and I would rather have the Wayne Rooney we have now.

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

What is a change-maker? What has Hillary Clinton changed? It is filled with all the cliches that New Agers and leftists glom on to, like "common sense gun control legislation." But it never was defined.

At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.

I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.

This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.

As far as I can see, you have used every cliche except 'God is love' and 'Please adjust your dress before leaving'.