Top 185 Overly Quotes

In its more listless moments, ‘Pharaoh’s Army’ seems a ramshackle collection of memories not overly concerned with telling a larger story.
Jeff Giles
Everybody has different issues, good or bad, that they carry with them on the court. It affects you. And for me, it affected me to where sometimes I would be overly aggressive and, in other ways, it would affect people to where they can’t perform on the court.
Metta World Peace
As a parent, my fantasy is to cook every meal, read every story, do everything, and also work all day. I’m overly hard on myself.
Liv Tyler
It’s easier to be cynical and edgy and tough rather than overly emotional.
George C. Wolfe
I’m overly confident. I believe in myself 100 percent. I believe in my game, and I believe in my work ethic.
Jaylen Brown
If you’re going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it’s the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad.
Matt Mullenweg
I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actres

I’ve been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.
Jamie Lee Curtis
I prefer someone who is not overly good-looking. If he’s too good-looking, I would feel that he doesn’t belong to me.
IU
I think being an immigrant makes me overly optimistic.
Ilhan Omar
My upbringing wasn’t overly comfortable.
Gareth Barry
I’m Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.
Rachel Sklar
I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.
John Sexton
I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.
Diane Ladd
Chemar Holder plays Xbox with me online all the time but it’s not like any of us are going to be buddy, buddy in the middle. We might make a small joke every now and again but it’s not going to be overly friendly because everyone’s got a job to do.
Jofra Archer
I tend to get overly excited and want to just go. I just love, love big waves.
Garrett McNamara
Overly restrictive regulations not only stifle the private sector; they also ultimately hurt consumers.
Ajit Pai
‘Cool’ is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
Oscar Isaac
I really am not overly comfortable with attention to be honest. Paradoxically I’ve noticed this is a pretty common trait amongst actors. You like to let the work speak for you, I think.
Killian Scott
I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
Gaby Hoffmann
I’d rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I’m scared people won’t get it.
James Bobin
I’m a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional.
Mary Lambert
I’d never be overly confident about anything.
Leo Varadkar
The reason it was so bruising when someone said I was from a rich family is that, like many of us, I’m deeply invested – probably overly so – in the myth of my own self-creation. I like to believe that I got where I am, such as it is, by working hard and charting my own course.
Meghan Daum
Women don’t want an overly feminine vehicle – they want to feel secure.
Franz von Holzhausen
Not to get overly psychological about this, but it’s probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.
Marisa Tomei
Too often, black athletes are presented as angry, overly aggressive and overly sexual. Or sometimes, they’re just plain emasculated.
Jemele Hill
I think when it comes to women who write or who fancy ourselves ‘hip downtown literati’, there is a certain contempt for being overly sexual or really looking for boyfriends. We tend to be marginalized as some ‘Sex & The City’ Carrie Bradshaw chick-lit dummies who just want shoes and a ring.
Julie Klausner
Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.
Daniel Kahneman
Michelle has had to grapple with Hilary Clinton’s legacy as First Lady… Michelle Obama never wants to be seen as the kind of First Lady who is overly involved in the West Wing.
Jodi Kantor
Not only are mandatory minimum laws overly punitive and discriminatory, but they’re also expensive. Prison is not free. Governments, and ultimately taxpayers, bear the costs.
Ralph Northam
Nick’s mother and I were attentive, probably overly attentive – part of the first wave of parents obsessed with our children in a self-conscious way.
David Sheff
Sometimes I wanted to be aggressive. I felt like if I wasn’t getting shots up or if I wasn’t being overly aggressive on defense then I wasn’t playing good. I finally realized just to slow down and just let the game come to you.
Channing Frye
I never want to play a show where it feels overly programmed, processed, and all that. For anybody that comes to one of our shows, the goal for me is to make sure that’s their show. That nobody else is going to see that show ever again. You know what I mean? I try to make it different every day.
David Cook
I’ve talked to men who feel like they’re overly sexual and, therefore, are attracted to any female who walks down the street. I will not excuse his activity with every female just because he feels driven in that direction.
Tony Evans
Other female rappers are overly sexual, have no wit, and their lyrics are so generic. I want to change the game to make rap that shows I’m not a normal female rapper – it’s not about how rich I am, how much sex I have, or how many boyfriends I have. That’s just not me.
Awkwafina
Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
Saint Ignatius
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters’ moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
Edmund White
I try not to be overly analytical.

I try not to be overly analytical.
Diane Lane
I don’t think that – you know, I’m sure that there’s guys that are doing it, because I’m sure in every sport there’s players who want to get the edge. But I think that it’s been blown overly – way more than guys are using it in our game.
Rafael Palmeiro
Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.
Raghuram Rajan
We should make it very clear to Saudi Aramco and others who want to list in London that they are very welcome but we aren’t going to overly amend the rules just for one particular listing.
Nicky Morgan
I was a very romantic, overly dramatic young lady, which served me well as a songwriter. Especially as someone who had to focus on lyrics and melody, because if you’re a dramatic and romantic person, lyrics come easy, and you turn every single short-term relationship into the biggest ‘Romeo-and-Juliet’ story ever.
Jane Wiedlin
I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.
Craig Kilborn
In tech entrepreneurship, even a lot of hack events tend to be overly commercial in that they’re designed to produce companies.
Hilary Mason
My ‘I can’ comes from confidence really, because I’m not an overly confident person.
Emma Willis
My brain has so many qualities that do not work with social media. I’m an overthinker, I’m overly private, and those two personality traits just do not work when it comes to Instagram.
Nikita Dutta
Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media… Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.
Issa Rae
I’ve always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.
Amy Lee
Getting so much attention all at once, with so many people who want something from you or want to talk to you… for someone who is overly sensitive to other people’s needs, that can be difficult.
James Gunn
With most of the songs and music that I’ve composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.
Serj Tankian
Devising the menu for an intimate meal can be a thorny task. You want to make something your guy will go crazy for, but that usually means big and heavy. And feeling overly full kind of kills the mood.
Katie Lee
Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles – local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.
Betty White
Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer’s body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.
Richard Serra
I don’t know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It’s very much about the class structure.
Daniel Radcliffe
By employing a certain sense of humor, you essentially get more serious about things and show conflict more effectively than if you were overly dramatic or only violent because that’s a one-way approach that just forces audiences to watch something appalling.
Yorgos Lanthimos
I love playing sports. I’m overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
Rachel Platten