Quotes About Bigger Than Life

#1. I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

Conrad Hall

#2. There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.

Ann Richards

#3. Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?

Dalton Trumbo

#4. I love when I get to play these characters that are bigger than life. There are roles in animation that I never get to do in real life - and it appeals to my ego as an actor to play the Queen of Everything. I admit it.

Virginia Madsen

#5. Everything bigger than life attracts a crowd.

Gunter Grass

#6. The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called 'Monkey Hustle.' Like I said, just listen to the name. That's a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.

Michael Jai White

#7. I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.

Randal Kleiser

#8. Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

Gene Hackman

#9. Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.

Rita Moreno

#10. I remember as a young man seeing these bigger-than-life, strong images of black manhood in the form of Jim Brown and Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Billy Dee Williams. All these guys were these alpha males who were smart, attractive. I said, 'Wow, I want to be like that.'

Michael Jai White

#11. I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.

Stan Lee

#12. As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.

Antonio Banderas

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

Nicolas Cage

#14. I think we're fascinated by gangsters and that whole lifestyle and crossing the line. We get sort of stuck in our normal lives, if you will, and you want to be bigger than life and I think people somehow live through these sorts of characters.

Denzel Washington

#15. John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life.

Jennifer O'Neill

#16. I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.

Randy Quaid

#17. Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

Bette Davis

#18. The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#19. Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Robert Duvall

#20. I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.

Zach Gilford

#21. I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

Stan Lee

#22. If you have the guts to do anything,then you better save enough to face the consequences. Becoming bigger than life requires guts & instinct.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#23. ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.

Roy Orbison

#24. You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

Nickolas Ashford

#25. Pictures are an escape. They should be bigger than life. In the same way, celebrities provide an escape from the mundane. They are photographed so we can worship them - so they are worthy of our worship.

David LaChapelle

#26. He's stoic and proud, bigger than life. Sharp jaw, intense eyes, armor made up of metal and ink. He is intensity and want and desire. He's happiness and frustration and comfort and hope and fear. He is my roller coaster.

Brighton Walsh

#27. The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.

Bruce Dern

#28. I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world ... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines ... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#29. The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

Bruce Dern

#30. An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

Timbaland

#31. I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

Raquel Welch

#32. The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.

Robert Aldrich

#33. Love required sacrifice and making hard choices and doing things that were bigger than just you. It wasn't something you asked for, or could control or change. It was something you accepted. Love was a force of nature.

Kimberly Derting

#34. Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

Fennel Hudson

#35. Had music not delivered Richard, too, on more than one occasion, from a life he'd believed himself trapped in? The tempos had changed, but that almost didn't matter. The point, now as then, was to tune in to something bigger than yourself, and to feel around you others who felt as you did.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#36. I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

Khloe Kardashian

#37. You're bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.

Hannu Rajaniemi

#38. The life of music is bigger than all of us.

Cindy Blackman

#39. If your ears are bigger than your mouth, you will go very far in life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#40. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to
you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something
bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

#41. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

Patrick Ness

#42. 35 "Everyone has a dream, a vision, a goal and a desire. Just because we have bigger dreams than others doesn't mean they don't have one. Sometimes we just too lazy to make it happen or are scared of failing."

But trying is better than not doing anything at all.

Kcat Yarza

#43. My life has to matter for something bigger than myself.

Kristy Cambron

#44. Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger than me. That simple fact makes God not only a likelihood, but a necessity.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#45. A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Mitchell Zuckoff

#46. If you want to thrive, you need to systematically engage with other people, in part to be reminded that life is bigger than your immediate problems.

Todd Henry

#47. Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

Richard Paul Evans

#48. There was a philosopher who said that all of life is just shadows. He said that people were just sitting in a cave, watching shadows on the cave wall. Aye - shadows of something much bigger and grander than themselves.

Lemony Snicket

#49. My platform might be a little bigger than someone else's, but everyone has a purpose. For me, that purpose in my life right now is soccer. There's a cool, personal testimony that goes along with it.

Tobin Heath

#50. Few things will pay you bigger dividends in life than the time and trouble you take to understand people and build relationships. As

John C. Maxwell

#51. Life has bigger plans for you than you can possibly know.

Robin S. Sharma

#52. I'm just a tiny person from a humdrum neighbourhood, so I grew up worshipping 'Bond' pictures and dreaming of a life bigger than my own.

McG

#53. Which is what one always hopes will happen: for life to take over and be bigger and more marvelous than what we can dream up on our own.
Life doesn't need magic to be magical.
(But a little bit sure doesn't hurt.)

Laini Taylor

#54. The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things ... the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Barbara Pym

#55. Perhaps the purpose of life is forged moment by moment. If you're going to wait till you find something "bigger than that" before you do anything, then you're doing a sixties kind of "I can't do anything till I find myself.

Laura C. Schlessinger

#56. She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#57. Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life.

Dave Willis

#58. The world rains on everybody, Laura. We just have to figure out a way to get a bigger umbrella than a lot of other people need, that's all. ~from-Here Comes The Heroes~

Kasey Michaels

#59. He'd made her feel what Barrons made me feel. Bigger than I could possibly be, larger than life, on fire with possibilities, ecstatic to be breathing, impatient for the next moment together. She'd been happy in those last months, so alive and happy.

Karen Marie Moning

#60. In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for the short time that your individual life joins the big stream of Life, cut some decent steps, for God's sake.

Tom Piazza

#61. We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.

Natalia Vodianova

#62. She knew he meant it. He'd burn the library, the city or the whole world to ashes if she asked him. It was their bond, marked by blood and scent and something else she couldn't place. A tether as strong as the one that bound her to her parents. Stronger, in some ways.

Sarah J. Maas

#63. 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

#64. My biggest musical dream is to keep playing all my life. There's nothing bigger than that and that's very challenging because you have to satisfy yourself at every stage.

Hiromi

#65. I got bigger problems than that life hasn't turned out the way you hoped. You can harp on the past all you please, Dow, like some old woman upset cause her tits used to stay up by themselves, or you can shut your fucking hole and help me get on with things.

Joe Abercrombie

#66. God made you the way He wanted you to be and He does not make mistakes. He has a plan for your life that is much bigger than you can imagine.

Michele Woolley

#67. When we get any painful moment, just search for the person who is geting bigger pain than you because at that time you may realize that you are not one who are geting pain in the world.

Ritesh Shrivastav

#68. They haven't left us much to believe in, have they?
even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home or vaguer than a human being.

Graham Greene

#69. 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

#70. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.

Veronica Roth

#71. All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to the power that is greater than we know. It's one of the defining principles of my life that I love to share: God can dream a bigger dream for you than you could ever dream for yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

#72. It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.

Tracy Chevalier

#73. My life is bigger than basketball.

Dwyane Wade

#74. His presence was larger-than-life, bigger even than his physical body.

Alexandra Bracken

#75. when you are committed to a life purpose that is bigger than your problems, your problems become relatively insignificant and you will overcome them with ease.

Hal Elrod

#76. I think I wanted to be a storyteller because I had a very active dream life. My life was boring, and I dreamed about a life bigger than my own. I've always just been that person, from my earliest memories at age 2.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

#77. Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Ann Landers

#78. The deep breathe you just took to show that your problems are bigger than you, is the final breathe someone had taken right now in his life! As long as your breathe is not the final one, you still have a hope!

Israelmore Ayivor

#79. I felt so stupid and young, and at the same time something was cracking open inside me, or maybe it was the world was cracking open to show me something really important underneath. I knew I was only seeing a tiny bit of it, but it was bigger than anything I'd ever seen or felt before.

Ruth Ozeki

#80. 'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.

Harrison Ford

#81. Death is big," Dare acknowledges. "But there are things bigger than that. If there's not, then this is all for nothing. Life is worth nothing. Putting yourself out there, and taking chances and all that. All of that stuff is bollocks if it can just disappear in the end.

Courtney Cole

#82. I've got a little boy coming and I can't wait. It's going to be the biggest thing that has happened to me in my life so far. Bigger than any Tour de France win.

Chris Froome

#83. Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them.

Dale Carnegie

#84. Your life is a lot bigger than this moment. You need to remember that you can't let the trials you face right now derail your course forever.

Bree Despain

#85. God's way is better than your way. His plan is bigger than your plan. His dream for your life is more rewarding, more fulfilling, better than you've ever dreamed of. Now stay open and let God do it His way.

Joel Osteen

#86. There is no life bigger than the one lived, every day, in awe of God. God showing up in our lives to love us despite ourselves. That is a treasure we can find every single day.

Susan May Warren

#87. You know what, it's not your life, it's life. Life is bigger than you, if you can imagine that. Life isn't something that you possess, it's something that you take part in and witness.

Louis C.K.

#88. There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome.

Sherilyn Fenn

#89. Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.

Lauren Oliver

#90. Life with God at its core is about giving your life up to something bigger and more powerful. It's about saying at every turn that God knows better than we know, and that his Spirit will lead us in ways that we couldn't have predicted. I have known that, but I haven't really lived that.

Shauna Niequist

#91. There is one thing we know about meaning, that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are. The larger the thing that you can credibly attach yourself to, the more meaning you get out of life.

Joel Garreau

#92. My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.

Laura Amy Schlitz

#93. Happiness is the peace of mind that comes from feeling that I am living a worthy life in the company of people I love and in the service of something bigger than myself.

Michael Josephson

#94. Make your life about something bigger than your life.

John Ortberg

#95. You overcome a problem, not by solving it, but by becoming bigger than the problem.

Debasish Mridha

#96. For your life to be great,your faith must be bigger than your fear.

Robin S. Sharma

#97. Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

Bruce Springsteen

#98. Do not chase another human being. Instead, chase your curiosity. Chase your development and your goals. Chase your passion. Strive to work for something bigger than yourself, and instead of trying to convince someone that you fit within their world, strive to build your own.

Bianca Sparacino

#99. We're never a hundred percent in control in life, Nina. We just think we are. Something bigger than us is always in the driver's seat. What we can control is our perception, our reactions to things. We can also control whether we choose to live life or live in fear.

Penelope Ward

#100. I say you ought to write out 10 outrageous goals that are bigger than you because your life isn't meaningful or important unless you're on purpose about something way bigger than you are.

Mark Victor Hansen