Bigger Than Life Quotes

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.

You say the character [of Leo Bloom] was meek and insecure, and you could’ve been describing me as well. I was a very shy person in those days, and working with Zero [Mostel], who was bigger than life, helped me grow. Zero was a strong influence on me.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words.

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.

I don’t think you ever outgrow your love for things that are bigger than life and more colorful than the average life. And somehow I feel that these comic book stories are like fairy tales for older people, because they have the same qualities.

The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

I think people are interested in anything that’s a little bigger than life and that’s colorful and – you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

I had a guy who went out of way to help me get started and somehow saw something in me. I couldn’t get my hands on a real guitar till I was fourteen. I always wanted one from the time I was a tiny kid. Music was bigger than life to me.

There’s just something about me and my persona that’s a little bit bigger than life and ridiculous at times.

Stripping away artifice – it’s the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life – but there’s nothing bigger than life.

Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.

When people see you on the screen, you become bigger than life.

You move differently than you do when you’re filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

An artist don’t make you bigger than life – being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin’ has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.