It’s not that anything has changed about me, and, it’s a cliche, but I think that as you get older, you learn to accept who you are, and you feel more comfortable in your own skin.
You are who you surround yourself with. I know that’s such a cliche quote, but it’s true.
The ideal guy for me is someone – it sounds cliche – but someone who’s driven, someone who’s passionate, someone who wants to be the best at what they do, someone that is intelligent.
You’re only reduced to a cliche if you don’t humanize a character.
I don’t think there’s anything cliche feminine about Jane Austen. And, anyway, her earliest champions were Sir Walter Scott and the Prince Regent.
I know it’s a cliche, but I didn’t want to work in an office.
It’s long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.
It’s crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
As cliche as it sounds, I’ve always told myself, ‘Don’t worry about the things you can’t control. Control the things you can control.’ That battle has beat up on me for years.
A perfect weekend in London has to start on Friday night, by going to the theatre, the Donmar or the National. It’s a cliche for an actor, but I enjoy going as much as possible.
In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on ‘Homeland.’ I love playing her, not just because she’s a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.
As cliche as it sounds, don’t stop. I feel like so often people will have talent or have potential, and they’ll quit because they don’t get anywhere as soon as they want to.
My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.
The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don’t, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened… and it happened because of a beautiful idea.
It’s a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long.
The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you’re writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn’t work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.
Let’s forget the cliche on girlfriends, from Serena to Sharapova. I say it’s easy to get lost in beauty, but is it a mistake then?
It’s definitely a hard pill to swallow; the son of John Lennon and a model having a band together is a cliche. But I think that once people get past that I think there’s been a really warm reception to our music.
If there’s anything I can’t stand, it’s the cliche of the female handler who’s always talking through the radio with your player, telling you where to go and what to do with a sexy voice. It’s such a horrible, horrible cliche. You just get so tired of it. It’s like, is this all she’s ever going to be?
I know it sounds cliche, but to give back is important. Sometimes we’re given so much, we need to do something for other people. I think that’s really important.
It’s extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you’re trying to write fiction, not a match report.
Some producers hang-on to that old cliche that if the audience hears the music, it is no good. I say this is so much talk. Music gives the film another dimension, if it’s done with the story in mind.
It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties – that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.
Rock guitar has been around for decades now, and there are so many strong traditions, and so much of it is just burned into my fingers. So, nine times out of 10, when I pick up the guitar to jam something, it sounds pretty cliche.
It’s almost a cliche that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don’t go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money; they get back to work building another company or at least investing in other people’s companies.
I grew up in southern California in the ’80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.
It’s difficult to find a genuine weakness that makes you appear competent. For instance, telling your interviewer that your weakness is working so hard that you have trouble prioritizing your family life is a little too cliche and comes across as disingenuous.
It’s a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it’s true.
It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you’re happy when you wake up.
Frankly, it’s depressing, each night sleeping in someone else’s home. I miss having a roof to my name. Our situation isn’t an ‘All in the Family’ cliche, but it’s still easy to see reality in plain terms: I live with my in-laws, and I can’t say when that will change.
This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it’s hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
Everything that I’ve done has made me who I am today. You know, it’s cliche, but it’s true.
It sounds kind of cliche, and a lot of people say it about our music, but I think a good place to hear our music for the first time is on vacation, or somewhere warm, on the beach or something like that.
I think my whole generation’s mission is to kill the cliche.
Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they’re gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that’s a joy.
Make an account, start uploading videos, and then be yourself; it’s very cliche, but no one else can do it.
I always believe that if you feel good and look happy, you’re always going to be beautiful. My one actual beauty trick is pretty cliche: Never, ever go to bed with your makeup on.
I know it’s kind of cliche, but my favourite is still the first ‘Hell in a Cell.’
Sometimes when you’re working on a period piece, there’s this tendency to be nostalgic about the period and do everything superglamorous, which can end up looking cliche.
I know it’s a cliche, but trust me on this. I once dated a Canadian. Canada = boring.
I’m not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.
What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called ‘cliche.’
I’m like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.
I know that I’ll joke around to the last minute I get in the car. But once the helmet’s on – it’s sort of a cliche, but it’s true – it’s quite symbolic that that is ‘go time,’ and I’m ready to have some fun and be bad while I do it.
I know it’s a cliche. But, like, literally, I want to create an empire of dozens of talent under me to take my power and multiply it so that I become bigger than myself.
The cliche of what a rock star is – there’s something elitist about it. I never related to that. I’m an entertainer. I think of it as, you’re performing for people. It’s not a self-glorification thing.
Plenty of casual daters will throw you off with maddening phrases like ‘I’m just enjoying having fun with you.’ This doesn’t make them a bad person, but it’s your call now how to respond. Just don’t assume ‘having fun’ or any such cliche means they’re going to suddenly decide they want a relationship next week.
When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don’t become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.
It’s very hard to tell an actor, ‘Stop acting.’ It’s easy to tell a non-actor, because they’re embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.
I don’t know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliche to carry around, because people don’t consider stand-ups really actors.
And I know it’s an old cliche, but winning and being in a winning position breeds confidence – cliche or not, it’s still true.
