Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Bagehot

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Mark Twain

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Baltasar Gracian

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

Arianna Huffington

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

Aries Spears

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

Drew Carey

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

Victor Hugo

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

Angela Shelton

I thought this would be a cute little film about meeting people with your same name, ... I would shoot it during the summer and then start on my comedy.

Paul Brooks

I think that because it was comedy-horror instead of pure horror is where the problem lay. It's the first comedy-horror in a long time, and maybe the marketplace just isn't ready for comedy-horror yet. It's difficult to think of other explanations.

Patricia Heaton

It had a 'Moonstruck' quality to the comedy - very romantic, huge emotions. I like to think of it as a comic opera, ... It just posed this question, what is true love? Is it that sort of ecstatic, over-the-top feeling you get on meeting someone? Or is it about years of commitment and history together? Or is it both? How do you find it, and how do you know? It's a very complicated topic.

Kimberley Nixon

'Fresh Meat' is the first comedy thing I've ever done.

Sandra Bullock

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

Jeff Kinney

I'm keeping my day job, because Poptropica is something that really energizes me. I'd love to create a TV series or write a film that's not in the 'Wimpy' universe, but I know it will be difficult to create something from scratch. But I love creating good comedy for kids, so I hope to have another successful venture in the future!

Roberto Benigni

The first part of the story is very funny and very full of gags ... then the second part is not a comedy (and) is exactly a real tragedy. This, to me, was wonderful, the balance.

Natasha Richardson

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

Morgan Freeman

Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.

Roald Dahl

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Eric Ries

Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product.

Kim Cattrall

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

Kenny Cunningham

I wouldn't even mention myself in the same breath as someone like big Paul.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

Krist Novoselic

When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.

Kristen Johnston

I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly.

Juice Newton

I've had the big ups and the big downs.

Emma Goldman

Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.