Over The Top Quotes

• I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Film History

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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• You can't handle the truth!

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Memorable, Great Year

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• Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

  Horace

  Movie, Wise, Latin

  Horace, Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz (2008). “The Odes of Horace”, p.27, JHU Press

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Want Something, World, Halfway

  "Over the Top". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

  Rosalind Russell

  Funny, Life, Movie

  "Fictional character: Mame Dennis". "Auntie Mame", www.imdb.com. 1958.

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• I feel the need... the need for speed.

  Tom Cruise

  Movie, Gun, Great Year

  FaceBook post by Tom Cruise from Jan 24, 2013

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• I always say, if you think it’s over the top then tell me where the top is first. I don’t think anyone can. But if you can tell me where the top is then I’ll tell you whether or not I’m over it.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Firsts, Wells

  "Nicolas Cage is No Ordinary ‘Joe’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. April 10, 2014.

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• As actors you're always afraid to go too far but Lasse Hallstrom wants you to go too far. He wants you to do it wrong, to be over-the-top, and that's so freeing to be able to think 'Now I can try and be bad'. There's no pressure on you and you don't feel you can make a mistake.

  Channing Tatum

  Mistake, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection and they memorized my songs in Spanish.

  Thalia

  Song, People, Passionate

  "Singer Thalia Gets Personal, Emotional In ‘Growing Stronger’". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2011.

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• I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.

  Dhani Jones

  Want, Lasts, Classic

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• I like to go for a certain over-the-top opulence when naming the drone pieces whereas the song titles are all about concision, I guess. I mean, if I were truly a purist, I'd call things, "Long Piece #27" or "Newest Fast Song", but I enjoy titling and it is helpful at rehearsals or when making set-lists.

  David First

  Song, Mean, Long

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You need to either create a slurry in a cold liquid, which also works with cornstarch, or you've got to do your gravy in a very wide pan and kind of scatter the flour over the top and then very quickly whisk it in.

  Alton Brown

  Needs, Liquid, Cold

  "TV Chef Alton Brown Shares Tips On The Science Of Thanksgiving Dinner". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 24, 2016.

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• Full of fun, over-the-top characters and witty prose, with a touch of gay romance that is equally pleasing to straight readers. The Edwin Drood Murders is the perfect mystery for educated, intelligent readers.

  Rhys Bowen

  Witty, Fun, Character

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• One of the series of decisions that the great screenwriter John McNamara made was about who to depict. [Ronald] Reagan had a role in HUAC, he was a friendly witness, but never went over-the-top about it.

  Jay Roach

  Decision, Friendly, Roles

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, White, Healthy

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• One difference between those who make it and those who don't--regardless of their field of endeavor--is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards.

  Zig Ziglar

  Dream, Commitment, Persistence

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.1, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm a cheesy over-the-top megalomaniac with a deep voice and the most amazing pecs.

  David Hasselhoff

  Voice, Cheesy, Most Amazing

  David Hasselhoff, Peter Thompson (2007). “Don't Hassel the Hoff: The Autobiography”, p.169, Macmillan

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• I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg.

  Peter Storey

  Legs, Rivals, Broke

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• My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

  June Jordan

  Father, Hero, Tyrants

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• Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it. So if my threshold to something onscreen is at that level, you can imagine how my threshold is to all the pain and suffering that is happening in the real world.

  James Wan

  Pain, Real, Blood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

  Charles Kennedy

  Kind, Persons

  "Interview: Honest joker's charm offensive". Interview With Polly Toynbee, Michael White, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2001.

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• I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  Crazy, Thinking, Obsession

  "Julie Brown: Being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. October 20, 2010.

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