Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.


Terry Gilliam

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You can't underestimate the following that Terry Gilliam has.
PAUL DERGARABEDIAN
A mistake is a Buddhist gift. Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.
TERRY GILLIAM
It's a respectable opening. You can't underestimate the following that Terry Gilliam has.
PAUL DERGARABEDIAN
I've been working with good directors - the Wachowski brothers, Spike Lee, Terry Gilliam, Mel Gi...
MONICA BELLUCCI
Getting the role in '300' saved me. I'd been out of work for 11 months after 'The Br...
LENA HEADEY
I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes And...
DREE HEMINGWAY
[Gilliam] has a very free imagination. There's nothing you feel you can't do as an actor. The audien...
JEFF BRIDGES
Hyperbole has been part of elections since the days of John Adams, and there's nobody better tha...
STEPHEN PAGLIUCA
You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists...
ERIC IDLE
Dan Curry is the funniest guy in the world. I can sit in a room with him for hours, and he's jus...
ERIC ANDRE
In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better th...
HENRY IAN CUSICK
I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.
RON CHERNOW
The thing that shocks people... is that I mean what I say. I don't use hyperbole.
NEWT GINGRICH
My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than...
LES CLAYPOOL
It's a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales, through the eyes of Terry Gilliam, ... This ...
MATT DAMON
It's a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales through the eyes of Terry Gilliam, ... This f...
MATT DAMON
I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd ne...
ERNEST CLINE
I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
VANESSA PARADIS
Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling wi...
JOY MANGANO
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
LYDIA LUNCH
marketing hyperbole.
BILL WOHL
i always avoid fights,quarrels ...not becos m coward but becos m EDUCATED...N LITERATE..!!:D...:-D
NEYHA SAHU
If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
EUBIE BLAKE
Embellishment and Hyperbole is desert for dummies!
JOHN LEACH
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never comple...
MARILYN MONROE
Have you ever noticed when you start getting happy, you say, uh-uh, I'd better watch out. I feel...
DYAN CANNON
I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
EDEN SHER
I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
JOHN LEGEND
John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friend...
TERRY GILLIAM
I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to st...
TERRY GILLIAM
Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
TERRY GILLIAM
I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control becau...
TERRY GILLIAM
We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving ...
TERRY GILLIAM
I can report that we are a hit in Germany,
TERRY GILLIAM
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
TERRY GILLIAM
It was a hard shoot,
TERRY GILLIAM
It was a very strange time, ... After having had four projects all collapse on me, by the time 'Grim...
TERRY GILLIAM
I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where H...
TERRY GILLIAM
That's my backroom project nonstop,
TERRY GILLIAM
I don't have a problem (with the bad reviews).
TERRY GILLIAM
I'm just being perverse, ... The idea that after such a long gap two films come out in the same year...
TERRY GILLIAM
If you're going to be one of the sheep, that our clever marketing technique lures into the theater, ...
TERRY GILLIAM
Hello, good evening and welcome to the middle of the film.
TERRY GILLIAM
I actually think we made it better without succumbing to other people's idea about what would make i...
TERRY GILLIAM
He didn't do anything to become president!, ... Well, thank God for Karl and Dick.
TERRY GILLIAM
It was lights, camera, inaction.
TERRY GILLIAM
We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have ...
TERRY GILLIAM
I know when I watch trailers, that I'm seeing the same ones I've seen the last 15 years,
TERRY GILLIAM
I like the fact that my films have always encouraged bad and good reviews. The most depressing thing...
TERRY GILLIAM
Yeah, off in the middle distance somewhere,
TERRY GILLIAM
They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar thing...
TERRY GILLIAM
People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their aud...
TERRY GILLIAM
People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it...
TERRY GILLIAM
of numbers, of calculations, where there's very little time for myths and dreaming.
TERRY GILLIAM
Heath is not a public kind of guy and this has been rough for him. He has had to go on Oprah Winfrey...
TERRY GILLIAM
Heath is not a public kind of guy and this has been rough for him to be in this non-stop now.
TERRY GILLIAM
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. ...
TERRY GILLIAM
They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could...
TERRY GILLIAM
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
TERRY GILLIAM
It's a respectable opening. You can't underestimate the following that Terry Gilliam has. Whether th...
PAUL DERGARABEDIAN
I'd better make hay while the sun shines.
XANDER BERKELEY
If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and d...
MADHURI DIXIT
I'd like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots - I don't know - ...
BEN PEEK
I wish I'd done 'Dumb and Dumber.' I was offered the part, but I don't think I'd...
WOODY HARRELSON
All that social media hyperbole is just so fake.
BILLY EICHNER
Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.
Without something I'm really excited about... I'd be really lost.
BRYAN VOLPENHEIN
Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.
DAVID R. ELLIS
What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experi...
FRANCESCO QUINN
The choice of roles as I grow older gets more and more limited, so if I pin myself to one kind of pa...
KATHERINE HELMOND
I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
BILL MOYERS
Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
BARRY TOOK
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
GEORGE BURNS
I'd like to helm my own series. Something British.
BENEDICT WONG
Comedies are something I'd be very interesting in doing.
DAVID NAUGHTON
The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doin...
DAK PRESCOTT
If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'
HENRY ROLLINS
We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federa...
MIKE QUIGLEY
I don't think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in somet...
RUSH LIMBAUGH
If I wasn't acting, I'd try and be a footballer. I wouldn't be a musician because I can&...
JAMIE BLACKLEY
I'd love to do something with somebody like James Blake.
HOZIER
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by v...
BOB DYLAN
I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
BOB DYLAN
Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
ADAM CAROLLA
If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE
If you?re going to go to college for something, you?d better be sure you?d really like to do it.
CRAIG COLBENSON
I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.
MITCH HEDBERG
I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life.
KATE MARA
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
GEORGE HALAS
I seem to have tireless energy when I get involved in things, on an almost OCD basis, which is a goo...
JIMMY PAGE
We'd actually met him once when he was at Cambridge. Then Terry Gilliam came along and started doing...
TERRY JONES
I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dan...
LARRY KING
If I went to a regular job, if I was a secretary or something, I'd want to look good. I'd dr...
ALANA BLANCHARD
I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.
AARON SORKIN
I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to ...
MAIKA MONROE
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to ...
MAHATMA GANDHI
I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like t...
STANA KATIC
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it st...
CONOR OBERST
If something is working, generally speaking, we don't interfere with it. As long as Terry was intere...
PAUL SLAVIN

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TERRY RILEY
It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged -- a self-righteous fetishism of language ...
TERRY EAGLETON
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally goo...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu...
ELLEN TERRY
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented w...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speec...
TERRY EAGLETON
Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro...
TERRY MCCORMICK
Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue...
TERRY PRATCHETT
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ...
TERRY EAGLETON
People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is wh...
TERRY ANDERSON
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ...
TERRY WAITE
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology....
TERRY EAGLETON
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
TERRY EAGLETON
When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.
TERRY BRADSHAW
In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and ...
TERRY ORLICK
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the a...
TERRY EAGLETON
What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
TERRY BRADSHAW
I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Dea...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
ELLEN TERRY
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.
TERRY PRATCHETT
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - b...
TERRY SOUTHERN
’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what th...
TERRY PRATCHETT
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than...
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
TERRY PRATCHETT
This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
TERRY PRATCHETT
If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.
TERRY PRATCHETT
...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
TERRY PRATCHETT
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
TERRY PRATCHETT
His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans --...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
TERRY PRATCHETT