Words matter. These are the best Understatement Quotes from famous people such as John Hurt, Sherwin B. Nuland, Meghan McCain, Russell Page, Janet Mock, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time; to say ‘high Anglo-Catholic’ would be a real English understatement.
I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word ‘bad’ would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful.
My favorite thing about my grandmother is her lust for life and how much she has shown me about living every day to the fullest. To say my grandmother has paved the way for me and so many women out there like me is an understatement.
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
To say that I loved school would be an understatement. It was my oasis, my sanctuary.
To say I was looking forward to fighting in Mexico for the first time is an understatement.
I don’t like being flattered. It doesn’t suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.
Am I blessed? That would be an understatement.
My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he’s somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement.
It’s not an understatement to say that I owe everything as an actor to ‘Merlin.’ It was pretty much my first job, and I didn’t know what I was doing for many years on it. It wasn’t until the third and fourth series – the fourth series especially – that I really found my feet with the character, and as an actress.
In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn’t fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.
Films like ‘The Godfather,’ ‘Chinatown’ and ‘The Exorcist’ brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for ‘Mildred Pierce.’
The black man’s journey within the genre of grappling wasn’t unlike the challenges their brethren faced in professional sports, entertainment and, most importantly, everyday life. To say it was challenging would be a massive understatement.
To say that my dad pushed me is an understatement. I was never naturally drawn to football.
To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.
In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver’s license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement.
I’m pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn’t look a day over 50. And we all love the sun, too, so blessed is an understatement!
Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.
To say I like social media is an understatement.
To say that the grocery business is cutthroat would be a major understatement.
I have a T-shirt that says, ‘Ball is life.’ My wife says ‘That’s an understatement for you.’
‘Fan’ is an understatement. I had the Spider-Man costume, I had bed sheets, toys, you name it. I’ve always had an argument with my best friend that Spider-Man was way better than Batman. I was a massive fan growing up.
Diwali is chaotic in the Kapoor household, and that’s an understatement. I normally throw a huge card party with all my close friends and my close knit group from the industry.
The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.
WrestleMania is a major event and that’s an understatement obviously, but it’s a major event from the standpoint that many other companies use WrestleMania as a source of creating new revenue.
