Top 77 Corny Quotes

I don’t regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

I’m going to be a fashion icon in a minute. I’m not going to do it in a corny manner. I have a voice that speaks for a whole other market – not just black people, but high fashion urban people. I mix street wear with high fashion. It’s never been seen before.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.

I know it’s corny – but I love ‘Jingle Bells!’

Honestly, I know it sounds corny, but as an actor, I’m just so happy to have a job.

I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to wake up with him. And I have the most amazing job, with writing that any actor would love and costars who I can’t wait to see on Monday mornings. And I love coming home to my husband.

The truth is – and this is corny – I fall more in love with Portia all the time. I really do. She surprises me all the time.

This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to – at least once in his or her career – play the person who saves the entire world.

I want to keep – this seems so corny – I want to keep growing as an artist.

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it’s done right – like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there’s nothing better.

As a person, I’m just really kitchy and corny, and I love ’70s variety shows.

There’s this whole list of old personalities that I can act, as corny as that sounds, or as method actor as that sounds.

The Marine Corps has to ask itself, ‘What does our nation need from its premier crisis response force?’ We are America’s shock troops in war and peace. I know it sounds corny, but it’s not.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin’, but I felt like a fighter comin’ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

You see, money isn’t everything – I know it sounds corny but I really mean it – success means a lot more.

What’s more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, ‘I don’t care about poor people,’ which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

I don’t know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we’ve become friends through the years. And you’ve been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can’t tell you how grateful I am.

As corny as it sounds, I’m often pinching myself going, ‘What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I’ve gotten to work with.’

I know it’s a cliche to say, ‘There isn’t anything you can’t do if you believe,’ but that’s something I subscribe to, even if it’s corny.

It’s very corny, ‘never give up’ – but it’s just a great quote that I always follow.

When you’re onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you’re all on the same level, it’s the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it’s like pure love.

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it’s music, take it seriously.

I realize I never stand out in a room unless I’m feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it’s very, very true.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can’t fake. I’m not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

My favourite thing to do as an artist is record. It’s a super therapeutic thing for me. Not to sound corny, but it literally is a stress relief for me.

Being older now, grown, I’m like, ‘What do we really do that’s fun?’ I’m kind of corny when you think about it. What could I rhyme about? Let me see, um, I gotta pay the rent today.

Every corny thing that’s said about living with nature – being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons – happens to be true.

I love when things that I’m involved in really matter and when people like me back and don’t just think I’m corny.

I’m a big ‘American Idol’ watcher, and sometimes I like to watch ‘America’s Got Talent.’ Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it’s so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.

Everybody has the prerogative for their own career in this business, and I firmly believe that to this day. But if you and I give each other our word – call me corny – I think you have an obligation to uphold that.

I translate Hawaii as a place where people make sure I’m having a great time, eating terrific food, without any expectation of anything in return. It’s a place for people to be happy. It sounds corny, but in Hawaii, it’s not; it’s uncorny.

I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I’m a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

It may sound corny to some guys but I still believe after all these years that the game isn’t over until the last shot Is fired.

I had a standup act, and I ended up turning it into something that was really watered down and accessible. Something that went from scary and threatening to something that was almost to the point of being corny.

I always think ‘Pity the Child’ is a goodie. And I’ve always liked a song called ‘Heaven Help My Heart,’ which is quite a corny number.

I don’t want to get corny, but my career really has been the personification of the American dream.

I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the… I know this sounds corny… but the child inside of you.

This is going to sound corny, but I feel like I didn’t choose music. Music chose me.

I’m trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

I always thought that the film would be successful if we captured Harvey Milk, like the way Harvey really was-the personality, the humor, the corny bad jokes, all of it.

I feel like nowadays it’s almost become a corny thing to say that you want to be a role model or do something good for the world, but the artists I’ve looked up to – like Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Prince – were about something.

It may sound corny in a cynical age but literally generations of our people have given much of their lives to establishing and cherishing the Labour party because they believed what the party told them when they joined.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

With the Gap Band coming from Oklahoma, other artists would tease us by calling us cowboys. We didn’t grow up on a ranch, but we took that style to the stage. We knew that it was corny, but at least it was ours.

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

I may sound like a corny bastard, but I love fashion.

This may sound corny, but I’ve always liked to make things that were beautiful.

Not to sound corny, but if life is a sport, if you’re moving to dive on a fumble or pick up a basketball in transition or pivoting to grab your toddler so he doesn’t fall into a pool… those are real life movements.

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

I know this sounds corny, but if I give you my word I am going to do something, you can take it to the bank. Whether that means if my giving my word puts me in a detrimental position, I’m still going to follow through on my word, and I’ll let the pieces fall where they may.

I know it sounds corny, but I think the meaning of life is to do what you love and be happy.

Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ABBA wasn’t a big intellectual thing. We were a pop group.

We’re gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old ’50’s B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.

Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.