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

It's funny how the littlest things can make you feel larger than life; the right lyric, the most heartfelt melody, the clearest message. Love.

Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.

I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

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

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

I enjoy playing real human beings after playing a lot of larger than life characters. I love playing true to life characters and that is what I intend to do for the majority of my career.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

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

Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

All of the larger than life questions about our presence here on earth and what gifts we have to offer are spiritual questions. To seek answers to these questions is to seek a sacred path.

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

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

I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men.

It's always great to play parts that are larger than life.

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

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.

All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.

I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable, so they wanted to balance the ticket.

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

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

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.

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too.

Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.

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

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.

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

George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.

Love is larger than life.

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

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

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

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 like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.

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

[Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had.

I think that's probably the most devastating thing - when someone who is larger than life winds up a shadow of themselves in a hospital bed.

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

Larger than life itself, and I can’t even believe this striking creature was once a little bit mine.