Larger Than Life Quotations

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

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.

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.

He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?

You don't have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself.

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.

Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

I write larger than life. It's what I do.

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.

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.

Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

I always feel, I guess being a product of the movies of the 40s where movies were the greatest things and screens were big and palaces were palaces and stars were larger than life that reality was so much inferior to what we felt was conceivably possible from what we had seen in the movies.