Cliched Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Cliched Quotes from famous persons: Seth Rollins, Michael Mann, Tamsin Egerton, Thomas Heatherwick, Alessia Cara. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Cliched Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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I’ve got nothing but love for Justin Roberts, nothing but great things to say about him. It’s a cliched thing to say you wish him well in his future endeavours, but I really do. I hope the best for him. He was involved in a lot of huge main events over the years. One thing about Justin was that he really loved WWE.
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There’s a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that’s such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they’re engaged, and they’re not distanced.
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When you’re acting, you’re escaping and hiding behind something. It’s cliched to say, but there’s a safety there.
4
Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture.
5
I don’t want to be cliched, but Buckingham Palace is beautiful, and the old red telephone booths are really interesting to me. I’ve always wanted to see those.
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I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.
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At the time, when you’re being dissected and judged it’s pretty brutal, but in hindsight it’s great and – it sounds cliched – you do come out the other side better and stronger.
8
It will sound very cliched but when I was kid I always wanted to be singer and never an actor.
9
My philosophy has always been that I hope I have a good enough day to give me another one, I hope that I have a good enough year to give me another year. I know that’s cliched, but it’s the truth in how I approach my career.
David Nail
10
It’s going to sound terribly glib and cliched but the more I learn about animals, the more convinced I am that almost all the fears we have about them are unfounded.
11
It is going to sound cliched, but my husband has been incredibly helpful.
12
I have a legion of friends and the best ones are my immediate family, which is very cliched but true.
13
So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who‘s supposed to be the ‘big baddie,’ it’s so easy for them to become cliched.
14
One thing I would say is that I think in any environment that you work in, there’s always going to be one or two people who you don’t like. But there just wasn’t that on ‘Games Of Thrones’. I know it sounds cheesy and cliched, but it was like a big family.
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We’ve had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we’ve had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it’s all about getting away from that cliched old tired idea that the future belongs to the West.
16
It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.
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It was really unusual that the crews on ‘Spooks’ were a real mix of men and women, and you’d struggle to see many women with parts that weren’t cliched back in the late ’90s.
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It may sound cliched, but it just shows that when you don’t let people put you in a box then anything can happen.
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I was, like, a total cliched ’80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.
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I’m very particular who I work with. I’m not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I’m interested in a model who I can take a portrait of.
Tim Walker
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It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.
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What mistake all of us make when we are talking about a particular cricketer is that we say they are trying too much, the control is not there, there is no patience. These are cliched terms.
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I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we’d like to be treated ourselves, we’d all be doing a lot better.
Marsha Thomason
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I don’t want to be cliched, but Buckingham Palace is beautiful, and the old red telephone booths are really interesting to me. I’ve always wanted to see those.
25
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.
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I am done with the cliched heroine roles. I can’t go to work without a challenge. I want to do films that drive me, films in which I am a part of the main plot.
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I’ve never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it’s not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I’ve always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn’t a part of the picture.
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I’m interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it’s the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can’t be this way.
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From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the ’80s or whatever – that is kinda gone, and that’s just terrifying to me.
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It’s going to sound terribly glib and cliched but the more I learn about animals, the more convinced I am that almost all the fears we have about them are unfounded.
31
Pretty much everyone‘s career starts the same way: with grunt work. Not just the cliched fetching of coffee, but other lowly tasks: taking notes in meetings, preparing paperwork, scheduling, intensive research – even flat-out doing our bosses‘ work for them.
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My career has been far from cliched. I have always done unconventional roles and I am proud of all of them.
33
I am a young girl, and I am open to dating, but at the risk of sounding cliched, I really don’t have the time for it.
34
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
35
My beauty ethos? Well, I’d love to tell you it’s something like ‘less is more,’ but honestly, it all starts with happiness. If only someone could bottle that up – when I’m happy, I’m at my most radiant and glowing. It does me better than any product ever could. And I stand by how cheesy and cliched that sounds.
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I dread to be compared to all these directors who have a lot of spontaneous emoting and swearing in their films – that is death; it’s a cul-de-sac. It doesn’t lift the material at all. It’s just a cliched reproduction of what we think is normal behaviour.
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If I have to choose between a Bollywood film and Pakistan film, it may sound cliched, but I will go with the script first. And if both the scripts are equally good, then I will choose a Pakistan film.
38
It’s difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn’t feel cliched.
Jake Halpern
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My story wasn’t one of those cliched stories of being an ugly duckling, I had a pretty good time at school. But then I think being six foot by the age of 15 meant that I couldn’t help but be noticed, and that was when my physical being felt quite painful – I could not any longer walk into a room without being noticed.
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I haven‘t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn’t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.
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It might sound cliched, but choosing the right script is crucial. I think ‘Badmaash Company‘ was a very big break for me because it gave me a lot of appreciation from the masses. It made me more confident as an actor.
42
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
43
When you’re acting, you’re escaping and hiding behind something. It’s cliched to say, but there’s a safety there.
44
My beauty ethos? Well, I’d love to tell you it’s something like ‘less is more,’ but honestly, it all starts with happiness. If only someone could bottle that up – when I’m happy, I’m at my most radiant and glowing. It does me better than any product ever could. And I stand by how cheesy and cliched that sounds.
45
My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I’ve spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.
46
I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It’s kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.
47
What mistake all of us make when we are talking about a particular cricketer is that we say they are trying too much, the control is not there, there is no patience. These are cliched terms.
48
As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.
49
I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I’m always playing on-the-nose characters, professionalslawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type.
50
The whole saas-bahu drama is very cliched. I feel there’s already too much of that on TV. So I was waiting for something like ‘Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi.’ The show offered a fresh and interesting plot.
51
It will sound very cliched but when I was kid I always wanted to be singer and never an actor.
52
For artists of my caliber, we’re not played on the radio, so we don’t really get a chance to get involved in that debate at all. We don’t get a chance, because this weird kind of ageism exists in pop music. If you’re past a certain age, you’re not relevant. That’s the kind of cliched term.
53
Sounds cliched, but I can’t survive without my calendar.
54
It is cliched, but you have to beat the best to be the best.
55
I like the feeling that I’m giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.
56
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
57
I don’t feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn’t do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.
58
I tick that cliched box of being the class clown. I’ve always done impressions and characters, so I’m very lucky that I get to do that as a career now.
59
When I started in the business there were no women in executive positions, no women producers or directors and certainly no camerawomen and we were destined to do very archetypal roles, very cliched things, so I was a dizzy blonde for years.
60
I’m interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it’s the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can’t be this way.
61
I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
62
My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I’ve spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.
63
It sounds so cliched, but I’ve always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.
64
It may sound cliched, but it just shows that when you don’t let people put you in a box then anything can happen.
65
I’ve never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it’s not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I’ve always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn’t a part of the picture.
66
It may sound very cliched but seriously, since childhood I always wanted to be an actress.
67
My philosophy has always been that I hope I have a good enough day to give me another one, I hope that I have a good enough year to give me another year. I know that’s cliched, but it’s the truth in how I approach my career.
David Nail
68
I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags.
Eric Close
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It is great that the industry is open to accepting character roles and moving away from the cliched Bollywood Hindi masala films.
70
I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we’d like to be treated ourselves, we’d all be doing a lot better.
Marsha Thomason
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The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.
72
It sounds so cliched, but I’ve always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.
73
At the time, when you’re being dissected and judged it’s pretty brutal, but in hindsight it’s great and – it sounds cliched – you do come out the other side better and stronger.
74
Sounds cliched, but I can’t survive without my calendar.
75
Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It’s like tennis in the most cliched way. It’s like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don’t hit it into the stands, and they don’t put the ball in their pocket and walk off – and they don’t argue with the umpire, you know?
76
I don’t know what I want, but I do know that I don’t want the usual stuff, the cliched stuff is just too mind-numbing. They sell, I know, but it makes me sad to know that.
77
More than being a star, I want to be an actor. This may sound cliched but that is how it is.
78
We’ve had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we’ve had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it’s all about getting away from that cliched old tired idea that the future belongs to the West.
79
In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like ‘Gone With the Wind.’ And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there’s something so absolutely romantic about it.
80
It’s very cliched to go, ‘You’re not punk.’ We don’t care if we are, and we don’t care if we aren’t.
81
Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, ‘Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.’ But after a year of not getting work, there’s this really difficult conflict, like, ‘Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?’
82
I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.
Poppy Z. Brite
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It’s cliched but football has its own language.
84
It sounds really cliched, but just be true to who you are.
85
My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it’s difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.
86
I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.
Poppy Z. Brite
87
I’ve become the quintessential L.A. person, to an embarrassingly cliched level. I’m like, ‘Let’s go for a hike and get a green juice.’ That’s a perfect Saturday to me. I hate being that cliche but, damn, it’s also really nice.
88
So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who‘s supposed to be the ‘big baddie,’ it’s so easy for them to become cliched.
89
My career has been far from cliched. I have always done unconventional roles and I am proud of all of them.
90
For artists of my caliber, we’re not played on the radio, so we don’t really get a chance to get involved in that debate at all. We don’t get a chance, because this weird kind of ageism exists in pop music. If you’re past a certain age, you’re not relevant. That’s the kind of cliched term.
91
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the ’80s or whatever – that is kinda gone, and that’s just terrifying to me.
92
I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
93
I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I’ve wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.
94
Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, ‘Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.’ But after a year of not getting work, there’s this really difficult conflict, like, ‘Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?’
95
It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.
Russell Brand
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
97
Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture.
98
Touring doesn’t have to be a harried, cliched way of life.
99
I was, like, a total cliched ’80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.
100
I’m a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
101
My story wasn’t one of those cliched stories of being an ugly duckling, I had a pretty good time at school. But then I think being six foot by the age of 15 meant that I couldn’t help but be noticed, and that was when my physical being felt quite painful – I could not any longer walk into a room without being noticed.
102
What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.
103
The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.
104
There’s a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that’s such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they’re engaged, and they’re not distanced.
105
Even though it’s become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it’s still effective and it still has to be done.
106
Talent is a very cliched word. Hard work is the key and I am a very hard working person.
107
It’s pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you’re in the capital of the world.
108
It’s very cliched to go, ‘You’re not punk.’ We don’t care if we are, and we don’t care if we aren’t.
109
I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I’m always playing on-the-nose characters, professionalslawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type.
110
What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.
111
It might sound cliched, but choosing the right script is crucial. I think ‘Badmaash Company‘ was a very big break for me because it gave me a lot of appreciation from the masses. It made me more confident as an actor.