Top 88 Cliched Quotes

Touring doesn’t have to be a harried, cliched way of life.

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.

I like the feeling that I’m giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

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.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It’s a desperate, sad situation.

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?

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.

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.

I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.

When you’re acting, you’re escaping and hiding behind something. It’s cliched to say, but there’s a safety there.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It may sound very cliched but seriously, since childhood I always wanted to be an actress.

When you’re acting, you’re escaping and hiding behind something. It’s cliched to say, but there’s a safety there.

What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.

I don’t want to go and play a cliched Indian girl.

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.

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.

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.

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.

My career has been far from cliched. I have always done unconventional roles and I am proud of all of them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It may sound cliched, but ‘Strictly’ is a real journey. I try to encourage my partner to stay in as long as they can, but above all to enjoy it.

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.

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.

It is great that the industry is open to accepting character roles and moving away from the cliched Bollywood Hindi masala films.

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.

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

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.

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.

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.

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.

More than being a star, I want to be an actor. This may sound cliched but that is how it is.

My career has been far from cliched. I have always done unconventional roles and I am proud of all of them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It may sound cliched, but it just shows that when you don’t let people put you in a box then anything can happen.

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.

It’s cliched but football has its own language.

I’m a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I’m always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals – lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type.

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.

It is cliched, but you have to beat the best to be the best.

As cliched as it sounds, I’m taking every day as it comes.

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve always felt, with ‘The Iliad,’ a real frustration that it’s read wrong. That it’s turned into this public school poem, which I don’t think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes – it’s become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.

Sounds cliched, but I can’t survive without my calendar.

Talent is a very cliched word. Hard work is the key and I am a very hard working person.

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.

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.

It will sound very cliched but when I was kid I always wanted to be singer and never an actor.

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.

It’s pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you’re in the capital of the world.

As cliched as it sounds, I’m taking every day as it comes.

I just want to do everything. I don’t want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that’s the way it is.

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.

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?’

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.

Sounds cliched, but I can’t survive without my calendar.

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.

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.