Cliche Quotes

At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded.

The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.

The cliche is dead poetry.

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

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

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

It's an old - and true - cliche that VCs rarely actually say 'no' - more often they say 'maybe', or 'not right now', or 'my partners aren't sure', or 'that's interesting, let me think about it'

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

Cliches are what make you understand something.

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along

All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

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

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

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

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

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

Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.

The more you give, the more you get - it’s a cliché, but it’s really true.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

It's a cliche that filmmaking is a team sport. However, let me say just say it again: filmmaking is a team sport.

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.

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

I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

Contrary to the cliche', genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it.

It's become almost a cliche at this point that movies in the general sense are the place you go for superheroes and explosions and TV is where you go for actual storytelling.

My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents cook that really served as the impetus for my career choice.

When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

It's sort of cliche, but when you're playing drunk, your character is trying to appear sober.

May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink.

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.

Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.