Top 65 Quotes About Caricatures: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Caricatures

#1. I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#2. I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.

Mayim Bialik

#3. [In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.

Umberto Eco

#4. To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.

Clay Shirky

#5. If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

John Irving

#6. What better hiding place for the true Templar than in the crowd of his caricatures?

Umberto Eco

#7. A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.

Hayden Schlossberg

#8. 51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They aren't asking for a law to prevent Charlie Hebdo from publishing caricatures, but they are calling on its editors to be a bit more sensible.

Tariq Ramadan

#9. What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#10. We are still so uneasy with the vicissitudes of sex we need to surround ourselves with caricatures of female hotness to safely conjure up the concept 'sexy'.

Ariel Levy

#11. if you only let your thoughts go, they can come up with all sorts of things, conjuring up images of anyone at all, making caricatures of even the people that you know and love most.
The self-preservation instinct. Let your subconscious make parodies of your loss and anxiety and jealousy.

Mons Kallentoft

#12. I find it very stupid that teenagers could only see caricatures of teenagers but they couldn't see films that you try to be a truthful context, a truthful portrayal of teenagers.

Alfonso Cuaron

#13. This is difficult to comprehend when one pauses to consider the character of Christ. Admittedly there have been many false caricatures of this Person, but an unbiased look at His life quickly reveals an individual of enormous compassion and incredible integrity.

W. Phillip Keller

#14. In the minds of their peers, too often students become caricatures of themselves.

Alexandra Robbins

#15. All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Walt Disney

#16. McCafferty's was a Mount Washington steak house, sort of the Palm Lite, with caricatures of Baltimore celebrities hanging

Laura Lippman

#17. Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

Michel Onfray

#18. In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

Jeffery Deaver

#19. Some people are caricatures of themselves, and some people keep people coming back and keep themselves growing. Otherwise, the fans would get bored.

Bonnie Raitt

#20. They spoke like caricatures, it was unbearable.

Alice Munro

#21. I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person.

Alison Jackson

#22. There is a tendency for characters who march on past their sell-by date to become caricatures of themselves - to tread the same ground, growing more stale with each step.

Mark Lawrence

#23. The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

Criss Jami

#24. I believe it's worth observing terrible things people have done as clearly and rationally as we can to show that our monsters are not caricatures.

Jason Clarke

#25. Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

Aldous Huxley

#27. Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

H.L. Mencken

#28. I found my friends very amusing the first time because they are funny and amusing. They really are because they're people who've got everything. They're sort of like camp caricatures of what you expect an aristocrat should be: vicious, rude, caustic unpleasantries.

Duncan Roy

#29. Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Michael J. Fox

#30. They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them.

Guy Ritchie

#31. When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.

Ashton Kutcher

#32. When we approached the project, the very first thing we did was take each character and say, "Okay, where would this character be?" We didn't want them to be caricatures of themselves. We wanted them to live and breathe, and grow with the audience and with us.

Jon Hurwitz

#33. Trout might have said, and it can be said of me as well, that he created caricatures rather than characters. His animus against so-called mainstream literature, moreover, wasn't peculiar to him. It was generic among writers of science fiction.

Kurt Vonnegut

#34. We all become caricatures of ourselves, if we live long enough

Noah Hawley

#35. Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

James Surowiecki

#36. It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

Jon Meacham

#37. Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

David K. Shipler

#38. Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.

Mitchell Reiss

#39. If I retire doing the character, I don't think the character has to retire. There will still be caricatures of Elvira. You know, Dracula still works, and he's dead.

Cassandra Peterson

#40. Little towns are like little children in this respect, that they interest most when they are enacting native peculiarities unconscious of beholders. Discovering themselves to be watched they attempt to be entertaining by putting on an antic, and produce disagreeable caricatures which spoil them. The

Thomas Hardy

#41. And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we're on a grand adventure when we've completely forgotten what an adventure is.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#42. They look like caricatures of used-car dealers from Dallas. But they're real. And, sweet Jesus, there are a hell of a lot of them - still

Hunter S. Thompson

#43. Many of us become walking self-caricatures at a certain point, and politicians can be particularly vulnerable, especially those who have maneuvered their very public lives as conspicuously as McCain. They tell and retell the same stories; things get musty. They engage in a lot of self-mythologizing,

Mark Leibovich

#44. Devil has to offer many diabolical grimaces: One of these caricatures is prejudice, it stirs up hatred.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#45. Old age makes caricatures of us all.

P.D. James

#46. It seems that in order to inscribe themselves upon the heart of humanity with everlasting claims, all great things have first to wander about the earth as enormous and awe-inspiring caricatures:

Friedrich Nietzsche

#47. Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.

Douglas Booth

#48. Those who look at others as simple, one-dimensional caricatures fuel the rage of the dispossessed.

Chris Hedges

#49. Caricatures are an important part of our culture of debate. They should defuse political spats through humor and irony. It is about making a strong statement but softening it with a wink. So Danes do not get too upset about caricatures. None of us is interested in insulting Muslims.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#50. He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.

Simon Callow

#51. Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

Charlie Munger

#52. My favorite caricaturist is Al Hirschfeld. I'm always trying to give my caricatures that streamlined quality - and I often fall short.

Steve Breen

#53. Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities.

Essence Atkins

#54. I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.

Abhishek Bachchan

#55. There is one more class of terminology to avoid: the "we-them" language that speaks disdainfully of nonbelievers or of other religions or denominations or simply caricatures or marginalizes the positions of people who do not share your beliefs and views.

Timothy Keller

#56. You can't go around making caricatures of the neighbors.

Harper Lee

#57. When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

Bil Keane

#58. No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

Franz Grillparzer

#59. I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.

Sharlto Copley

#60. My fun as an actor and my task as an actor is to transform myself to become other people. I enjoy becoming characters but I don't enjoy becoming caricatures. The research I do is only necessary in so far as we move into other dimensions.

David Suchet