“The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.”
― A. J. Jacobs
“I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.”
― Aaron Sanchez
“I don’t really like attention too much.”
― AB de Villiers
“You can’t have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that’s very important.”
― Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
“It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.”
― Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
“The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.”
― Adam Davidson
“Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.”
― Adam Grant
“A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.”
― Adam McKay
“I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can’t say I really remember too much about it.”
― Adam Oates
“I’m obviously not a guy who focuses on weight too much. But for certain jobs, you have to gain or lose weight.”
― Adam Pally
“I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to ‘this costs too much’ or ‘that’s impossible’.”
― Adora Svitak
“I forget about myself and tend to concentrate too much on others.”
― Adwoa Aboah
“Know not to revere human things too much.”
― Aeschylus
“Too much mercy… often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.”
― Agatha Christie
“I saw ‘Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs’ when it came out, didn’t like it too much. I found she was stupid.”
― Agnes Varda
“I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.”
― Agnetha Faltskog
“There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.”
― Agnetha Faltskog
“I’m not big on fuzzy or fleecy slippers. I just don’t like the texture and the heat. It just gets to be too much.”
― Aidy Bryant
“Frankly, I love my independence too much to give it up.”
― Akkineni Nagarjuna
“To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.”
― Al Franken
“To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.”
― Al Franken
“There’s no reason anybody should be reading too much into ‘Thrift Shop.’ I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old who are really into going to lyric websites, hitting print, and printing lyrics for every song that’s popular.”
― Al Madrigal
“I’ve seen too much in life to give up.”
― Al Sharpton
“If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.”
― Al Sharpton
“In London, there is no need for 25 high-end gastronomic restaurants. That would be too much.”
― Alain Ducasse
“I don’t think the rating system places too much pressure on chefs. I prefer to put the pressure on my chefs to perform to the top standards.”
― Alain Ducasse
“I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic. I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.”
― Alan Alda
“There’s too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.”
― Alan Sugar
“One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.”
― Alberto Fujimori
“Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn’t effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it’s too much.”
― Alejandro Amenabar
“Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.”
― Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“Restaurants serve huge portions on even huger platters, and people are tempted to eat too much.”
― Alek Wek
“There’s never too much you can do.”
― Alek Wek
“I used to be really afraid and anxious of taking on too much, and the older I’m getting, the more fearless I’m becoming. Life is so much more relaxed when you’re like that.”
― Alesha Dixon
“We live in a world that is full of product. We have too much.”
― Alessandro Michele
“There’s one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I’ve discovered over the years, which is that you’ve got too much facility on the page.”
― Alex Garland
“I talk too much.”
― Alex Meraz
“Sometimes when you’ve only got a few snaps, guys try to do too much and try to make too much happen.”
― Alex Smith
“I’m always hairy. I swear too much.”
― Alexa Chung
“I don’t really have time to watch too much, but I like ‘Family Guy’ and ‘Entourage.’ I’m also obsessed with the YouTube series ‘Balls of Steel.’ It’s hilarious.”
― Alexander Ludwig
“That’s how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I’ll tell them when it’s too much. It’s always easier to bring it back then to push it further.”
― Alexander Payne
“I don’t like those artificial air fresheners. They just smell so fake. It’s too much.”
― Alexander Skarsgard
“I’m from the middle of nowhere in Somerset, and if I have too much stimulus or chaos, then I tend to not be as creative.”
― Alice Temperley
“I think my cat is adorable, and I probably give it too much fresh chicken. Maybe if I had a child, I’d be giving the chicken to the child.”
― Alison Goldfrapp
“I’d like to play characters who are older – I don’t want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer.”
― Alison Lohman
“I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I’m scorin’ too much.”
― Allen Iverson
“Men expect too much, do too little.”
― Allen Tate
“I feel that too much singing annoys people.”
― Allison Williams
“My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.”
― Amanda Seyfried
“It’s dangerous to talk too much about future fights.”
― Amir Khan
“We like to entertain, but it is not our duty to do so. I have had a lot of exciting fights and been hit way too much, so that is something to think about.”
― Amir Khan
“I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There’s just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.”
― Amos Lee
“I think, when you become a politician, if you talk about religion too much, you’re pandering or something.”
― Amy Chozick
“I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn’t been cooked.”
― Amy Lee
“Even when I get dressed up to go out, I never use too much makeup.”
― Ana Ivanovic
“The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.”
― Andre Gide
“I don’t really shop too much. I shop a few times a year.”
― Andre Iguodala
“To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.”
― Andre Maurois
“A lot of boxers have too much on their plate.”
― Andre Ward
“I don’t want to think too much about me.”
― Andrea Arnold
“Someday perhaps I’ll have to get a grownup job… but for now I’m having too much fun being a reporter.”
― Andrea Mitchell
“Makeup is a very delicate thing for me – I’ve got sort of defined features, so I don’t like to do too much contour, as it can be a bit severe.”
― Andreja Pejic
“I’ve had a go at captaincy. Batting and bowling and captaincy turned out to be a bit too much.”
― Andrew Flintoff
“I think too much. Being in my body is much more satisfying than being in my head.”
― Andrew Garfield
“In secondary school I was floating – I wasn’t passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.”
― Andrew Garfield
“I think it is a burden… that we constantly realise that there isn’t that much rhyme or reason to why something happens. If we think about that too much, it can make all of our decisions very stressful.”
― Andrew Haigh
“Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.”
― Andrew Neil
“I want to keep everything balanced. That’s why it’s important not to have too much fanfare.”
― Andrew Scott
“I realized that anything to do with Fermat’s Last Theorem generates too much interest.”
― Andrew Wiles
“I think, when it comes to psychiatry, that a lot of people are overmedicated. I think when it comes to ECT a lot of people go through too much. I think there’s a lot of guesswork in psychiatry.”
― Andy Behrman
“If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and researched. I really don’t feel like I can wing it. So I write it out word for word, and when I’m onstage I’ll improvise around it.”
― Andy Daly
“I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.”
― Andy Stern
“Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry – especially the medium sized businesses – and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.”
― Angela Merkel
“I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren’t there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.”
― Angelina Jolie
“If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.”
― Angelina Jolie
“When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.”
― Angelina Jolie
“Sometimes it’s better to not read too much, to not listen to everybody.”
― Angelique Kerber
“My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it’s just getting bigger.”
― Angie Harmon
“Boy, if you dont have the network and the producers that believe in you, it’s too, too much.”
― Anita Morris
“I’ve been around the coaching circuit far too much.”
― Anne Donovan
“I’m starting to think my narrators’ sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.”
― Anne Enright
“You can’t worry too much about profile; otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that’s not the kind of actor I want to be.”
― Anne-Marie Duff
“As for my haircare rituals, I don’t wash it every day, and I also let my hair dry naturally. My hair is bleached, so I’m mindful of not putting too much heat on it.”
― Anne-Marie
“I’m afraid sometimes I cram too much into my schedule. And I’m not very domesticated. I’m absolutely hopeless in the kitchen.”
― Anne Reid
“There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.”
― Anne Stevenson
“If anything, I want to please people too much.”
― Annette Bening
“I was never much of a one to win prizes… and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.”
― Annie Lennox
“I love dogs, but they are a big responsibility, and with four children, having one would be too much.”
― Ant Middleton
“You might be asking too much if you’re looking for one vaccine for every conceivable influenza. If you have one or two that cover the vast majority of isolates, I wouldn’t be ashamed to call that a ‘universal vaccine.’”
― Anthony Fauci
“A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.”
― Anthony Hopkins
“People ask, ‘Should I call you Sir Hopkins?’ But I say, ‘No. Call me Tony,’ because it’s too much of a lift-up.”
― Anthony Hopkins
“Goal scoring is what I do, and it’s the thing that makes me most happy, so I’m really happy inside. But I’m just not the sort of guy who shows that sort of emotion on the outside too much.”
― Anthony Martial
“We don’t want to show our hand to the fan base or give up too much too early.”
― Anthony Michael Hall
“I have too much to live for to allow a bunch of cowards to take my joy. I refuse to give them my joy.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton
“I make the same noise after I eat too much as I do after I work out.”
― Antoni Porowski
“I can’t do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.”
― Antoni Porowski
“If the person needs avocados, then I’m not going to deny them avocados because some troll decided I use avocados too much.”
― Antoni Porowski
“Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.”
― Antonio Porchia
“What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.”
― Antonio Porchia
“Some critics say I spent too much time on politics. I don’t put much stock in the critics.”
― Antonio Villaraigosa
“As actors, we shouldn’t worry too much about the language we are going to speak in a film.”
― Anushka Shetty
“Men don’t like eating out of cans. And I don’t like eating out of cans too much, either.”
― Aretha Franklin
“Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy’s statement that sometimes party asks too much.”
― Arlen Specter
“Too much of a good thing is wonderful.”
― Armistead Maupin
“I have too much respect for the music and for the band and the fans to give anything less than my best.”
― Arnel Pineda
“I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle
“Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don’t force them to run too much competition.”
― Arthur Lydiard
“But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.”
― Arthur Rimbaud
“I have a Rolex, but no diamonds. Rappers wear diamonds to compensate for a lack of fashion sense. I don’t even have pierced ears – I’m not into that; it’s too much.”
― ASAP Rocky
“When I decide to write a story, I don’t think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It’s just how my subconscious works.”
― Asghar Farhadi
“I’m the type of skater that needs to stay upbeat and relaxed, open, because if I stay quiet, I get in my head, and then I start to think too much and start to doubt.”
― Ashley Wagner
“Things can be dissected too much. It’s football. Go and play.”
― Ashley Young
“The great decision was the Explorer program. The thing we did not do well is that we allowed and somewhat encouraged too much exposure to the program.”
― Astro Teller
“I’ve been way too blessed. Had too much fun, too many rewards.”
― Ato Boldon
“Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.”
― Augustus Hare
“Nixon is fascinating because he’s our most alienated president. Everybody felt that they never knew who he was – that’s palpable in the histories. His face is so cartoony that he’s become this cartoon figure. I never really related to the romanticization of J.F.K., and I knew too much about Reagan to idealize him. Nixon falls in between.”
― Austin Grossman
“I go on tremendous health kicks – exercise, yogurt, no booze. Of course, I smoke too much.”
― Ava Gardner
“I don’t put too much stock in polls.”
― Ayanna Pressley
“I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.”
― Ayelet Waldman
“The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material – steel – is not really a commodities engineering steel.”
― Baba Kalyani
“If I’m going for a shot, then I’ve just resolved to go for it and not think too much about it.”
― Babar Azam
“It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.”
― Baltasar Gracian
“On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.”
― Barbra Streisand
“And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.”
― Barney Frank
“It is better to do too much than to do too little.”
― Bas Rutten
“I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that comes to my mind is: splendid as he is, is there too much of Spencer Tracy.”
― Basil Rathbone
“I rely way too much on Seamless, and I really need to learn how to feed myself.”
― Beanie Feldstein
“It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.”
― Beatrix Potter
“When we consume vastly more protein than we need, our kidneys struggle to process it, resulting in protein in the urine. Too much protein from meat may also contribute to kidney stones.”
― Bee Wilson
“I can’t deal with the gym too much if I don’t have somebody telling me what to do.”
― Behati Prinsloo
“I’ve consciously taken on material that’s a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. ‘The Town,’ I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. ‘Argo,’ I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.”
― Ben Affleck
“If you express yourself too much. you’re overacting; if you underplay it too much, it can come across as wooden.”
― Ben Hardy
“Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it.”
― Ben Harper
“I believe in leavening. You can’t have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain.”
― Ben Okri
“My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that’s what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn’t be interested.”
― Ben Saunders
“Don’t take too much advice.”
― Ben Silbermann
“I loved my Communications class. The toughest one I had was Oceanography only because I didn’t have too much interest in the oceans.”
― Ben Simmons
“I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch
“I drove a blue and yellow Super Shuttle van for two 10-hour shifts on the weekend after a week at ACT of 10 A.M.-10 P.M. I wasn’t surviving too much.”
― Benjamin Bratt
“The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.”
― Benjamin E. Mays
“In general, liberals fear conservative judges far too much. In almost all areas, in fact, they dramatically overstate the stakes.”
― Benjamin Wittes
“I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.”
― Benny Hinn
“We are really very lucky to have so many fantastic brands. But to grow them we should not be too much in a hurry. They are growing fast, but they have to grow accordingly to the market and to the capacity we have to deliver good products.”
― Bernard Arnault
“Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.”
― Bert Campaneris
“People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.”
― Bertolt Brecht
“I’m not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.”
― Betsey Johnson
“I am just too much.”
― Bette Davis
“I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.”
― Bette Midler
“I really didn’t want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing.”
― Betty Ford
“I think, quite frankly, I have been on TV too much, but part of it is necessity, and part of it’s ability.”
― Big Show
“America’s biggest problem is too much freedom.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Everybody else does work – I have too much fun.”
― Bill Cunningham
“I used to play videogames, but I don’t have too much time anymore. I used to have 3DO, but I could never find any games, really. I used to play it all the time. Games like ‘Road Rash.’”
― Bill Goldberg
“One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.”
― Bill Sienkiewicz
“My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.”
― Billy Corgan
“My dad died when I was 15 and worked way too much.”
― Billy Crystal
“I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.”
― Billy Graham
“I love to prepare if it’s something that requires training. But I don’t like to prepare the psychology too much.”
― Billy Zane
“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.”
― Blaise Pascal
“I was a big fan of Shaq when I was little, but I don’t think I’m going to play too much like him, though.”
― Blake Griffin
“I don’t ask other artists for too much advice.”
― Blake Shelton
“People read way too much into personalities and all that stuff.”
― Bob Corker
“The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It’s one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.”
― Bob Feller
“I have too much money invested in sweaters.”
― Bob Hope
“I don’t think too much about age. Maybe if you’re hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don’t.”
― Bob Newhart
“In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.”
― Bob Ney
“Government is just spending too much money.”
― Bob Schaffer
“I just feel I’m on a different page from the reviewers, so I’ve learned not to care about them too much.”
― Bobby Farrelly
“All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick – no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.”
― Bobby Vinton
“I’m a special drunkard… I drink too much.”
― Bon Scott
“I work pretty quickly. I’d probably draw somebody once or twice in pencil, then just go to ink. Not really care too much about it, and it just kind of worked out.”
― Box Brown
“One of the reasons a film about Pablo Escobar has never been made in the two-hour format is because there’s too much information.”
― Boyd Holbrook
“When I went to Sundance back in 1998, indie film was all the rage, and Miramax was throwing down five or six million dollars for several films each year. Those were the salad days of indie film, and those days are over. I’m not out there worrying too much about it.”
― Brad Anderson
“One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically ‘niche’ show is that you spend too much time on the ‘niche’ and not enough time on the ‘show.’”
― Brad Falchuk
“There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.”
― Brad Henry
“We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others – we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.”
― Brad Pitt
“It’s the cross-training that’s key. It doesn’t let your body adapt to one stimulus too much and it keeps your workouts exciting.”
― Brett Hoebel
“I had to give up martinis – I enjoyed them too much.”
― Brett Somers
“We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.”
― Brian Austin Green
“But I’ve found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.”
― Brian Lumley
“I think too much during my day-to-day life; I’m the guy who worries about everything.”
― Brian Posehn
“People have already dirtied my name too much.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I mean, I don’t really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.”
― Brooke Burke
“In opera, everyone’s watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn’t relate too much to film.”
― Bruce Beresford
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
― Bruce Lee
“Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.”
― Bruno Dumont
“I don’t really talk too much about my personal life, but I’m happy.”
― Bryan Greenberg
“But if too many countries, as has been the case, interfere too much in the internal affairs, the political situation of Afghanistan, then of course we can’t hope satisfactory results.”
― Bulent Ecevit
“I just want to fight and not talk too much.”
― Cain Velasquez
“You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.”
― Calvin Coolidge
“If there’s too much of you around, people can get tired of you.”
― Cameron Mackintosh
“I don’t do method acting. If I play a farmer, I’m not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That’s a bit too much for me.”
― Carice van Houten
“If you listen too much, you won’t be able to create.”
― Carine Roitfeld
“When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.”
― Carl Honore
“The golf bag hurts my shoulder too much; I prefer to play football.”
― Carlos Tevez
“I like to bake, so sometimes I do the desserts. I don’t eat too much desserts, though, because I need to be able to move around on the court.”
― Caroline Wozniacki
“Technology is just so fast. As convenient as it is, it’s stressing a lot of us out. It’s just too much, too quick. And I’m interested in that conversation.”
― Carrie-Anne Moss
“When you start working on a series, it’s almost too much work. It’s like a movie a week.”
― Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven’t had much time to watch too much TV lately.”
― Casper Van Dien
“Today, technology asks too much of people.”
― Chad Hurley
“I said yes too much. I said yes to certain projects that weren’t for me. It was somebody else’s vision and somebody else’s dream and somebody else’s artistic endeavor, but it didn’t necessarily fit in my grand scheme.”
― Chadwick Boseman
“Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.”
― Channing Pollock
“If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that’s it.”
― Charles B. Rangel
“It is futile to talk too much about the past… like trying to make birth control retroactive.”
― Charles Erwin Wilson
“The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, – when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.”
― Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
“Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.”
― Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
“I don’t really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can’t sit down and concentrate on words.”
― Charlie Bewley
“We think too much and feel too little.”
― Charlie Chaplin
“There’s a tendency in this Hollywood machinery to take on too much. You end up not being able to give everything you want.”
― Charlie Hunnam
“You don’t even need the director’s judgement. It’s too much.”
― Charlotte Gainsbourg
“I thought I’d become an actress, but then I realized I eat too much.”
― Chelsea Handler
“Don’t think too much. The best pictures come naturally.”
― Chiara Ferragni
“Too much collagen will damage the skin. You will get collagen overload.”
― Chris Toumazou
“I don’t like trainers, because we distract each other. We talk too much, and I get too friendly. I prefer classes instead. I love Physique 57.”
― Chrissy Teigen
“I’m an actor I’m not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.”
― Christian Bale
“I mean, I don’t like anyone who likes themselves too much.”
― Christina Ricci
“I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.”
― Christopher Hitchens
“I don’t worry too much about typecasting. I just figure, one way or another, I’m going to find another role.”
― Christopher Lloyd
“The tragic thing about the Internet is that you can find out way too much, way too quickly.”
― Christopher McCulloch
“I can’t write a book like ‘Lamb’ or ‘Fool’ every year. It just takes too much research and craft.”
― Christopher Moore
“My fans have great senses of humor and eat too much chocolate.”
― Christopher Moore
“The trouble with wedlock is that there’s not enough wed and too much lock.”
― Christopher Morley
“Oil could complicate domestic politics in countries with too much of it – there is a reason economists talk about ‘the curse of oil,’ and dictatorships have thrived in countries with abundant natural resources.”
― Chrystia Freeland
“I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.”
― Chuck D
“Taking in too much added sugar from highly marketed sugary foods and drinks displaces healthier foods in the diet.”
― Chuck Norris
“I think we see too much female-on-female hating each other on TV. We should stick together.”
― Ciara Renee
“I don’t want to take too much responsibility, where I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m representing Asia.’”
― CL
“In opera, there is always too much singing.”
― Claude Debussy
“I don’t believe in Chap Stick, I’m going to say that right now. Carmex can sometimes feel like too much of an attack. It’s just too much sometimes.”
― Claudia Winkleman
“There is too much unhappiness in football, no?”
― Claudio Ranieri
“In the beginning, the clients would say, ‘This is too much,’ but over time, the ones I liked kept working with me. They’d say, ‘It’s not too much. Coco can still be Coco. She still gives 100 percent when she’s on a photo shoot.’”
― Coco Rocha
“I don’t regret anything about my younger career, mainly because we were children and didn’t have too much power, but also because it gave us the privilege to be where we are now.”
― Cole Sprouse
“I don’t watch too much TV when it comes to sports or news or things like that.”
― Colin Kaepernick
“I’m totally addicted to Japanese anime and spend way, way, way too much time watching it.”
― Connor Jessup
“There’s only a couple of coffee cups I’ll use, because I like the way they feel in my hand. I realise I’ve got lots of others, but I won’t use them because I just don’t like… the thickness of the ceramic is too much, or the glaze isn’t right.”
― Cornelia Parker
“It takes too much energy to hate.”
― Cory Booker
“I’m busy and that’s the way I like it – when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.”
― Craig Charles
“I now hate actors that blink too much on screen. When people blink, I turn the movie off. So I don’t blink at all.”
― Craig Roberts
“But there’s a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That’s more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much.”
― Crispin Glover
“There’s always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little – and it’s always somebody else.”
― Cullen Hightower
“I’m loud. I talk too much; I think I know more than I do – those and a billion other issues I know I have.”
― Curt Schilling
“I’m not one to be paying too much attention to what another dude’s doing.”
― Damon Dash
“I got the big BMW X5, and I didn’t like it. It was just too big, and I didn’t feel comfortable driving it. It was taking up too much room, and I was afraid I was going to smash into something.”
― Dan Hill
“Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.”
― Dan Lipinski
“The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like ‘The Heiress,’ the audience’s reactions sound like ‘The Jerry Springer Show’ sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there’s also the entrance round of applause here, which we don’t get too much in London.”
― Dan Stevens
“Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.”
― Dana Spiotta
“It’s not good to thicken sauce with too much butter because it can cause heaviness. You don’t want to avoid butter, but you also don’t want to put too much – add it slowly.”
― Daniel Boulud
“The phrase ‘fake news’ sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.”
― Daniel Levitin
“I’d met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don’t have to socialize with them too much.”
― Daniel Woodrell
“As a player, you have to focus on the match and not too much on the surroundings.”
― Danny Welbeck
“I always knew I was a bit different from my friends, had too much energy, and suddenly I could get it all out with ballet.”
― Darcey Bussell
“Too much contemporary fiction seems purposefully to address small things in small ways. And yet why not try for the all-inclusive, the gripping, for the audacious?”
― Darin Strauss
“After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.”
― Dave Chappelle
“The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn’t freak us out too much.”
― Davey Havok
“But if I worried too much about publishers’ expectations, I’d probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.”
― David Baldacci
“Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it’s just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it’s one of my pet hates.”
― David Beckham
“We’re often portrayed as rich, spoiled athletes who play a game for too much money.”
― David Duval
“Progressivism is the belief that we have too much freedom with which to make too many stupid choices.”
― David Harsanyi
“It’s no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can’t. But I don’t bother about it too much.”
― David Hockney
“Hedge-fund managers make too much money relative to their social utility. I wish their rewards were a bit closer to those of, say, schoolteachers.”
― David Ignatius
“I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.”
― David Johansen
“Too much coffee can lead to belly bloat!”
― David Kirsch
“I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.”
― David Ogilvy
“The government’s desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn’t give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.”
― David Suzuki
“I’m always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I’m always surprised that it keeps happening to me.”
― David Twohy
“I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn’t hold up – it’s too much plot, audiences just didn’t want to hear about it.”
― David Zucker
“Too much power in any institution tends to stifle innovation.”
― Dean Ornish
“I put weight on easily if I eat too much and don’t exercise. When I went on my honeymoon in 1999, I put on a stone in three weeks!”
― Debra Stephenson
“I don’t read too much into things and look at social media. It’s all a load of crap.”
― Declan Rice
“Being compared to players, being linked to other teams – I don’t really take any of it in, to be honest. If you think about it too much, you get caught up in it.”
― Declan Rice
“When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.”
― Del Shannon
“And certainly don’t get caught by the press having too much to drink, you now, that sort of thing.”
― Denis Thatcher
“I can’t recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.”
― Dennis Eckersley
“Maybe it’s because I was too much reality, but I’m not interested in seeing too much reality anymore. I’d rather watch a Dean Martin concert and let the world go by.”
― Dennis Farina
“To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.”
― Dennis Potter
“One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.”
― Dennis Ritchie
“When I go on heavy rants, or I retweet too much, everybody unfollows me.”
― Denzel Curry
“There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.”
― Derek Bok
“We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.”
― Derek Walcott
“At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don’t believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.”
― Desi Arnaz
“There are some days where I’ll eat 8,000 calories per day, on a day before a 12, 14, 18 hour swim. For a 61-year-old woman, that’s a lot! And I try not to eat too much refined sugar – cookies, desserts, those sorts of things.”
― Diana Nyad
“Work and children I could have. But the husband was just too much.”
― Diane von Furstenberg
“One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.”
― Dick Gephardt
“I’m too much of a control freak.”
― Dido Armstrong
“When Atletico wanted to sell me, I was told that I earned too much money and they wanted me off the wage bill. I liked that honesty.”
― Diego Forlan
“All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.”
― Dieter Rams
“I have been pretty free-flowing in my batting. I have not let situations change my batting around too much.”
― Dinesh Karthik
“I like watching ‘The X Factor,’ but I would never go on it – I think it’s too much of a controlled thing.”
― Dionne Bromfield
“The size of the halls doesn’t matter to me too much.”
― Doc Watson
“If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.”
― Dolly Parton
“When you’re on tour too much or on stage too much, you feel like you have to deliver and get this super-hyped vibe going.”
― Dolores O’Riordan
“Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.”
― Don Marquis
“The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.”
― Don Marquis
“Not too much, though there’s a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.”
― Donald Sutherland
“I’m worth far too much money. I don’t need anybody’s money.”
― Donald Trump
“Actors are divas, and we all make too much noise and complain too much, so if you don’t do that, it makes you rather exceptional, apparently.”
― Doug Jones
“I think the killers get far too much attention.”
― Douglas Coupland
“I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.”
― Drake
“A guy who’s not a champion can’t talk too much about championships, can he?”
― Draymond Green
“I don’t think I put too much pressure on myself.”
― Drew Pomeranz
“For me personally, there’s too much fashion around in this world.”
― Dries van Noten
“I get a bit insecure if I feel like there’s too much makeup on my face or if I feel like I’m cakey.”
― Dua Lipa
“But I can’t really say there is too much modern music that I’m blown away by at this moment.”
― Duncan Sheik
“Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions.”
― Dwyane Wade
“The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.”
― E. F. Benson
“Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.”
― E. Franklin Frazier
“When I was younger, I used to love Tim Burton’s ‘Batman.’ I was, like, 15, and even then, I was aware, ‘This is really the Joker’s film.’ It’s like, the Joker just takes over, and Batman, you really don’t learn too much about him.”
― Edgar Wright
“There’s not too much Edge in Adam Copeland, but there’s a little bit of my sarcasm and my sense of humor, I guess, but I’m not a sleazy, raving maniac like the character of Edge could be.”
― Edge
“I don’t like to talk too much about differences between managers.”
― Edin Dzeko
“The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.”
― Edmund Waller
“Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.”
― Edna Ferber
“Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store.”
― Edward Dyer
“It’s better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.”
― Edward Norton
“Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn’t like them too much, but they’ve got a big benefit, which is that the ability of string theory to describe all the elementary particles and their forces along with gravity depends on using the extra dimensions.”
― Edward Witten
“I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don’t hear too much about.”
― Edward Zander
“Trump gets too much credit for ‘Teen Vogue”s evolution.”
― Elaine Welteroth
“Too much agreement kills a chat.”
― Eldridge Cleaver
“Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry – something more concrete and out of time.”
― Eleanor Catton
“I met Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige in a party. I didn’t speak too much with Patti, but she was lovely with me.”
― Elena Roger
“I haven’t expressed this too much in public, but I have a friendship to a degree with Bruce Springsteen.”
― Elias
“I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they’re wearing.”
― Elizabeth Olsen
“People criticised me for using too many exclamation marks and the word ‘awesome’ too much, but that’s just me.”
― Ella Woodward
“Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.”
― Ellen G. White
“Ever since I’ve been young I’ve been fascinated by the human body. I’ve written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much – paranoid and a hypochondriac.”
― Ellie Goulding
“While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions of any kind would be harmful to Israel.”
― Elliott Abrams
“Too much TV hurts movies.”
― Elvis Presley
“Pianists don’t argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.”
― Emanuel Ax
“If you spend too much time wondering what you’re going to feel like in year five, you’re not going to feel anything in year one.”
― Emilia Clarke
“I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.”
― Emilia Fox
“I’m not someone who likes to plan too much ahead.”
― Emily Blunt
“As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.”
― Emily Greene Balch
“I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.”
― Eminem
“The kids are old enough now – I just want to let them be kids. I don’t want to comment on them too much. They’re at an age where I just want to let them be kids.”
― Eminem
“I try not to spend too much time on my computer.”
― Emma Kenney
“Coaches can sometimes mollycoddle players too much – if they are good enough, then they are old enough.”
― Eniola Aluko
“I don’t reflect back too much on moments in my career.”
― Eric Bischoff
“On ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ I didn’t have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospital three times.”
― Eric Dane
“Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.”
― Eric Hoffer
“When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.”
― Eric Shanteau
“When Messi plays the ball, everybody expects many things from him. Sometimes it’s too much because we have to let Messi breathe a bit.”
― Ernesto Valverde
“I will test a guy to within an inch of his sanity because I’ve been through too much drama. He has to be 100%.”
― Estelle
“I’ve had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.”
― Evan Bayh
“But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn’t bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.”
― Evan Dando
“It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.”
― Evan Davis
“The Harley’s got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping.”
― Evel Knievel
“I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can’t say no.”
― Farooq Abdullah
“There’s no such thing as too much. If there’s too much, then that’s a great thing.”
― Fat Joe
“I think I lost too much weight during ‘Khubsoorat.’”
― Fawad Khan
“I don’t actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.”
― Felicity Jones
“To disclose too much of one’s inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one’s ingenuity.”
― Filippo Brunelleschi
“I worry too much about the present to worry about the future.”
― Finn Balor
“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.”
― Flannery O’Connor
“Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.”
― Francis Bacon
“The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.”
― Francis Beaumont
“We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.”
― Francis Ford Coppola
“There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.”
― Francis Walsingham
“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Our biggest threat is not too much Europe, but too little.”
― Francois Hollande
“Truth suffers from too much analysis.”
― Frank Herbert
“I can’t go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.”
― Frank McCourt
“People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.”
― Frank Ocean
“I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.”
― Frank Ocean
“Too much truth is uncouth.”
― Franklin Pierce Adams
“’Fernwood 2-Night’ didn’t help me too much when it was first on.”
― Fred Willard
“I guess I like more of the skinny jeans. I’m not very fond of all the stretch, so I try to avoid too much stretch fabric.”
― Freja Beha Erichsen
“He who considers too much will perform little.”
― Friedrich Schiller
“People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, ‘Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don’t be too much of a downer.’”
― Gallant
“One of my strengths is focusing on football, and even in the summer, I try not to switch off too much.”
― Gareth Barry
“I just don’t eat too much. That’s never been my problem.”
― Gary Cole
“Ferrari or Lamborghini. Never fancied one of those – too flash for me. I don’t really like seeking too much attention.”
― Gary Lineker
“Too much clutter is a disturbance to the energy of a space for me. It’s big no-no for me.”
― Gauri Khan
“I don’t like to hold too much formality in concerts. It’s not that I don’t like seeing people who are really polished and put together. But I’m more excited by things that are a little bit breaking apart as you’re watching them.”
― Gavin Creel
“If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.”
― Geezer Butler
“For me, it’s very hard to train too much, just sparring, sparring, sparring. It’s boring.”
― Gennady Golovkin
“Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.”
― Geoffrey Beene
“Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.”
― Geoffrey Beene
“When you give chief executives too much compensation in stock options, they concentrate too much on the stock price, and there is a perverse incentive to raise the stock price, particularly when the chief executive wants to exercise his own options.”
― George Akerlof
“I can’t afford to die; I’d lose too much money.”
― George Burns
“In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.”
― George Canning
“Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.”
― George Chapman
“I don’t tweet, I don’t go on Facebook. I think there’s too much information about all of us out there. I’m liking the idea of privacy more and more.”
― George Clooney
“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”
― George Eliot
“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.”
― George Harrison
“Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.”
― George Santayana
“Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.”
― George Savile
“In North America, many fans know Cristiano Ronaldo’s smirk and can recognize Didier Drogba in a commercial. Maybe they know too much for the good of M.L.S.”
― George Vecsey
“I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.”
― Georges Duhamel
“I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.”
― Georgia O’Keeffe
“In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.”
― Gerald Clarke
“There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.”
― Gertrude Stein
“I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.”
― Giancarlo Esposito
“My order from Starbucks is an ice chai with one less pump of chai because I feel like they put too much, and it’s, like, too sweet, and it’s overwhelming.”
― Gigi Hadid
“I spent a lot of – too much of – my childhood watching movies and thinking about movies.”
― Gillian Flynn
“I don’t think there is too much art involved in what I do.”
― Giorgio Moroder
“If I get a song – a good song – I just sing it the way I hear it in my head. If anybody else wanted to add whistles and bells and chains rattling, that’s fine. Just not too much. I actually just do things as straight ahead as possible.”
― Glen Campbell
“I don’t miss television. It’s too much hurry up and sit around, wait till they do this and do that, and get the lighting just right. I’d much rather go out on a stage anywhere and just play and sing for an hour.”
― Glen Campbell
“Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They’re not concerned about what they’re really saying to their audience.”
― Gloria Trevi
“I do a lot of juicing. I don’t put a lot of food in my stomach, and I don’t mix my foods too much. So if I want to have, like, protein, I’ll just eat a bowl of lentils; I won’t mix it with a bunch of stuff.”
― Goldie Hawn
“There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley
“My heart goes out to a missionary who does not receive regular mail from home. Generally, a letter once a week is a good rule. But on the other hand, too much mail can be damaging to a missionary’s morale.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley
“You can drink too much tea.”
― Gordon Brown
“One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.”
― Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“I was like a closet makeup fiend as a little girl because I knew that I would be guffawed at in school if I wore too much makeup.”
― Grace Potter
“When you want too much, you don’t usually achieve much.”
― Granit Xhaka
“I don’t want to get dunked on too much, and I want to make it to the playoffs.”
― Greg Oden
“As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.”
― Greg van Eekhout
“If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you’re doing musically.”
― Grimes
“The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.”
― Grimes
“There’s no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower… The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.”
― Grover Norquist
“The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.”
― Grover Norquist
“The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.”
― Gustave Flaubert
“I need to stay disciplined on the road. Too much food can wreck your palate.”
― Guy Fieri
“There was a lot of risk taken in the Mercury and Apollo eras, and we don’t take those risks anymore. We’ve designed the systems to eliminate risk, which makes it take forever and cost too much money.”
― Gwynne Shotwell
“The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cells, while programmed cell death removes them. Just as too much cell division can lead to a pathological increase in cell number, so can too little cell death.”
― H. Robert Horvitz
“It’s good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.”
― Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
“On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don’t need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.”
― Hamdi Ulukaya
“I don’t concern myself too much about calories and fat.”
― Hannah Marks
“I don’t think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.”
― Harold H. Greene
“Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn’t pay very well.”
― Harrison Ford
“My biggest weakness is steak. I have to be careful not to eat too much of it these days – but I do love it done medium rare, with peppercorn sauce.”
― Harry Kane
“Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.”
― Harry Vardon
“Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don’t have time to teach him.”
― Hedy Lamarr
“I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.”
― Heidi Julavits
“I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.”
― Helle Thorning-Schmidt
“I see too deep and too much.”
― Henri Barbusse
“Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.”
― Henry L. Stimson
“China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little.”
― Henry Paulson
“As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, ‘White Light/White Heat,’ and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn’t get it.”
― Henry Rollins
“An experienced designer with more freedom to act might have realised that there was just too much optimism in the Ares I concept: that a shuttle SRB was simply too small as a first stage for a rocket carrying the relatively heavy Orion spacecraft.”
― Henry Spencer
“It was the view of the people in the Department of State that the handling of Yemen affairs from Aden was too much of a burden on the then Consul, so an additional officer was named to the American Consulate at Aden to handle Yemeni affairs. I was designated for that task.”
― Hermann Eilts
“I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.”
― Hermann Maier
“I have always held to the theory that too much chalk may be just as bad for a novel as for a knee joint.”
― Heywood Broun
“Girls bat their eyelashes and act like they don’t know anything in front of guys they like, or give a little bit of eye contact, but not too much, or a bit of touching. Or being coy. Sure, I do a bit of that.”
― Hilary Duff
“For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it’s best not to like it too much.”
― Hilary Mantel
“I have too much work as a composer to concentrate on singing.”
― Himesh Reshammiya
“I like shooting locations just because too much control on the stage can be a bad thing.”
― Hiro Murai
“I think you can get so mentally beat by kind of working yourself up too much.”
― Holly Holm
“I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.”
― Holly Madison
“Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don’t pay too much attention to that.”
― Holly Valance
“Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.”
― Homer
“I’m not at a point in my life when I’m analyzing too much.”
― Hope Davis
“When I did ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ everyone in Hollywood was saying I had too much muscle.”
― Hope Solo
“Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.”
― Horace
“Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.”
― Howard Dietz
“A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.”
― Howard Hodgkin
“Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.”
― Hugh Mackay
“My plan was to model and pay the rent and then intern with designers and work on the other side of the industry however I could, but then it just got to be too much, especially with casting, fashion week, and also working for a fashion designer.”
― Hunter Schafer
“I’m too much of a big kid.”
― Iain Glen
“I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.”
― Ian Somerhalder
“If I was a condiment, I’m gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I’m too much for some people, and hipsters like me.”
― Ike Barinholtz
“There’s too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.”
― Illeana Douglas
“My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.”
― Imelda Marcos
“I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it’s because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being ‘arranged.’”
― Ingmar Bergman
“If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers.”
― Irvin S. Cobb
“Since I travel too much around the world, I take all these vitamins for my immune system.”
― Isabeli Fontana
“I’ve suffered too much to hide my feelings.”
― Isabelle Adjani
“Another thing that I don’t like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don’t pick up a violin at all.”
― Itzhak Perlman
“There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.”
― J. B. Priestley
“Over the years, I’ve learned a lot about nutrition and about myself, so it’s a lot more based on feel. I stopped putting a number on it because people were analyzing it too much.”
― J. J. Watt
“I’ve never liked rehearsing too much.”
― J Mascis
“I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.”
― J. P. Donleavy
“I definitely try not to get too caught up in putting too much of a gender or age assessment on everything – I’ve just got to get on with it.”
― Jacinda Ardern
“I do not read SF as much as I used to. It’s too much like a busman’s holiday.”
― Jack L. Chalker
“People think, ‘Jack, you do too much.’”
― Jack Ma
“I’ve tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.”
― Jack McDevitt
“There’s not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.”
― Jack Prelutsky
“I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.”
― Jack Vance
“My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.”
― Jackie Collins
“I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you’re not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.”
― Jackie Cooper
“Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I’m asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.”
― Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“For too much of history, we’ve viewed the world’s precious resources – both environmental and human – as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz
“My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.”
― Jacques Derrida
“One of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil and then walnut oil or whatever. It’s too much.”
― Jacques Pepin
“Their films would probably be better if they’d seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.”
― Jacques Rivette
“The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.”
― Jakob Bohme
“If you have to go back and spell-check the text you’re about to send, you’re saying too much.”
― Jaleel White
“I don’t think about consequences too much.”
― James Arthur
“I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.”
― James Ellroy
“I don’t even like to sleep – I feel as if there’s too much to do.”
― James Franco
“When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it’s absurd. There’s something to just being spontaneous.”
― James Franco
“Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. I’d rather not spend too much money on something that’s just going to get messed up.”
― James Harden
“I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.”
― James Herbert
“I’m on television far too much. I’m not sure why. I’ve watched myself on TV from time to time. It’s painful.”
― James May
“I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I’ve been able to play different kinds of characters – I’ve done a lot of period pieces – but I’ve never had to play the same type of character too much.”
― James McAvoy
“We’re going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there’s been too much of this idea let’s try and get along here, and we’ve eroded some of our standards.”
― James P. Hoffa
“What’s funny is, when I made ‘Saw,’ I got accused of being a fascist, when I made ‘Insidious,’ I got accused of being godless, and now I made the ‘Conjuring’ films, and I’m accused of being too much God.”
― James Wan
“I don’t like collaborating too much.”
― Jamie Hewlett
“I’m probably quite practical when I’m on stage. I start off with a leather jacket, and then get too hot and take it off. I don’t think too much about it.”
― Jamie Hince
“When I watch a movie I don’t really care too much about the plot – not that it isn’t important, but what I remember is the visual imagery, something that happens in an individual scene.”
― Jamie Hyneman
“I talk too much.”
― Jamie Lee Curtis
“I am too much of a worrier. I’m the person who thinks about calling round all the hospitals when someone is five minutes later than they said they would be.”
― Jane Fallon
“I worried too much when I was a kid.”
― Jane Lynch
“A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.”
― Janet Fitch
“I don’t believe in messing with mother-nature too much.”
― Janine Turner
“I have actually lost a couple of roles – film roles – because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.”
― Jason Alexander
“I don’t want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me… Just too much risk.”
― Jason Calacanis
“Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much.”
― Jason Chaffetz
“Meetings should be like salt – a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation.”
― Jason Fried
“I’m not somebody who goes online after every episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too much feedback and too much information.”
― Jason Katims
“I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school – skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.”
― Jason Lee
“I’m a bit too much of a people pleaser and that can be frustrating for people in your life.”
― Jason Ritter
“It doesn’t do to eat too much before a performance.”
― Jason Robards
“I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don’t have a choice.”
― Jason Schwartzman
“I just try to stay in my little circle. And I don’t try to do too much. And when my opportunity comes, I just try to make the most of it.”
― Jayson Tatum
“It’s my job, but I think it is too much.”
― Jean Alesi
“What you get free costs too much.”
― Jean Anouilh
“It’s quite pretentious, really, isn’t it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.”
― Jean Dujardin
“Too much virtue can be criminal.”
― Jean Racine
“He who hugs too much, hugs badly!”
― Jeanne Calment
“French girls are very simple – they don’t try too much.”
― Jeanne Damas
“I’ve voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I’ve voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.”
― Jeff Bingaman
“I’ve got to watch my back, so I can’t put on too much weight.”
― Jeff Bridges
“I just think too much sometimes.”
― Jeff Buckley
“It is my belief there is too much concentration of power and spending in Washington.”
― Jeff Fortenberry
“I’m never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.”
― Jeff Lemire
“Everyone is so into labeling themselves. I don’t really put too much into that.”
― Jeffree Star
“I think that it’s fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That’s ‘Alcatraz’ or anything that I’m working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren’t there.”
― Jeffrey Pierce
“The books on my nightstand are so bizarre, very eclectic – like, every German author, and then I have a couple of books by this ex-boyfriend of mine there. I just want to make sure that he’s not too much better than I am!”
― Jenny Mollen
“I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.”
― Jeremy Brett
“I think we can spend too much time worrying about polls.”
― Jeremy Corbyn
“I’m not religious. I’m spiritual. Religious seems too much like a club.”
― Jeremy Irons
“I do what I do because I like doing it. I’m well paid for it. I get far too much adulation compared with what it’s worth.”
― Jeremy Irons
“I don’t really dissect too much when ideas come – they just kind of pop into my head; I just take them and run.”
― Jeremy Scott
“I’m shocked to be saying this, but as a child, I never went to a circus. It cost too much.”
― Jerry Lewis
“So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.”
― Jesse Jackson
“My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn’t have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.”
― Jessica Ennis-Hill
“There’s nowhere in London where you can use a whip without getting too much attention.”
― Jessica Henwick
“I can’t watch most movies because they scare me too much.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I think sometimes when you have 24 episodes, you almost have to stretch things out too much.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I’ve seen straight, partnered women explain their decision to stay at home by noting that childcare would have taken too much out of their paycheck – as if this cost was just theirs to bear!”
― Jessica Valenti
“I like how strong Sade is and how she doesn’t give away too much.”
― Jessie Ware
“No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.”
― Jim Gaffigan
“I watch too much TV.”
― Jim Rash
“People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.”
― Jimmy Buffett
“One can spend too much of one’s life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.”
― Jimmy Sangster
“It’s got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.”
― Jo Brand
“I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.”
― Jo Nesbo
“I guess I’m just not the film femme fatale type. I giggle too much. I have freckles and a turned-up nose, and I walk like an athlete.”
― Joan Caulfield
“Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.”
― Joan Collins
“I am just too much.”
― Joan Crawford
“When I became CEO, I just didn’t think about my age too much. I’m sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn’t. That was probably because of my age.”
― Jochen Zeitz
“I came off Snapchat. I was done with it… I think I spent too much time on it.”
― Jodie Comer
“I’m not really trying to be too much of an actor or anything.”
― Jody Hill
“My whole career has been a landmark. So I don’t think about the pressure too much. I just go out and do, because I believe in it.”
― Joe Morton
“I worry too much.”
― Joe Regalbuto
“I never really think too much about my voice.”
― Joel Edgerton
“Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods.”
― Joel Fuhrman
“I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.”
― Joel Robuchon
“Whatever you want too much you can’t have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.”
― Joel Rosenberg
“I pretty much use the same stuff live that I use in the studio. I don’t like the feel to change too much.”
― Joey Jordison
“Ajax was spending too much money; they were buying players that were too expensive. If you get 100 per cent, you can’t spend 120 per cent. It’s quite easy.”
― Johan Cruyff
“Nobody wants to hear an actor complain about too much work – especially other actors.”
― John Benjamin Hickey
“I don’t like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I’m more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.”
― John Caudwell
“Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.”
― John Crowe Ransom
“I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.”
― John Darnielle
“But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.”
― John Dryden
“Too much is made for us; too much is given to us – even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.”
― John Edgar Wideman
“If we don’t preserve the oceans from nitrate runoff and plastic and chemicals, and if we don’t preserve it from acidification, and if we don’t preserve it from grotesque overfishing – too much money chasing too few fish – we’re going to have the most massive ecosystem on the planet in peril.”
― John F. Kerry
“Washington does not tax too little: it spends way too much.”
― John Fleming
“I guess that’s a flaw in my career, that I like to work too much.”
― John Glover
“It’s too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.”
― John Howard
“One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.”
― John Hurt
“Too much agreement kills the chat.”
― John Jay Chapman
“Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.”
― John Kasich
“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith
“I don’t know what happened to the millennials. I think too much coddling is not a good thing.”
― John Layfield
“It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man’s desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.”
― John Osborne
“At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.”
― John Polkinghorne
“Down in the south, it’s how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that’s what I’ve done.”
― John Prescott
“I tend to talk too much when I get nervous, and I’m sure many people can relate to that.”
― John Rampton
“Neil Simon didn’t like it too much when we came out in clown makeup. We stopped doing that.”
― John Ritter
“Pizza’s actually healthy for you if you don’t eat too much of it. If you eat one or two slices, it’s very nutritious.”
― John Schnatter
“We’ll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.”
― John Sununu
“Sex is like money; only too much is enough.”
― John Updike
“The Internet doesn’t like you to learn too much about explosives.”
― John Updike
“Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.”
― John Wanamaker
“Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.”
― John Wayne
“You can’t really claim too much ownership of your character. They really do belong to the writers, and in many ways, you’re just their puppet.”
― Johnny Galecki
“I drank too much, only champagne.”
― Johnny Mathis
“Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.”
― Johnny Ramone
“I’ve got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.”
― Johnny Vegas
“To sum up my idea of on-ice costume fashion sense, it’s probably that too much is never enough.”
― Johnny Weir
“I found that, academically, it really didn’t matter whether I had received a certain grade in a class; it didn’t matter too much what schools I wanted to attend… What matters is one’s drive, one’s intelligence.”
― Jon Huntsman, Sr.
“I don’t really deal in trash talk too much. But I show my confidence.”
― Jon Jones
“Both parties in Washington waste too much of your money. When I worked there, I helped expose waste and abuse by government contractors.”
― Jon Ossoff
“My friends would probably describe me as silly. And honest. And that I think about things a bit too much.”
― Jonathan Brandis
“President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.”
― Jonathan Kozol
“There is no ‘recycle too much.’ That’s an oxymoron.”
― Jonathan Krisel
“I like people too much. I really do.”
― Jonathan Van Ness
“I’m happy to write 10 times too much music.”
― Jonny Greenwood
“Within a match, there’s so many things that happen that could ultimately determine the outcome: You reach too much with your right hand, you step forward with your left leg, you get your head out of position.”
― Jordan Burroughs
“I don’t think about being a public persona too much – I just get on with what I’m doing.”
― Jorja Smith
“In truth, men speak too much of danger.”
― Jose Marti
“I don’t have too much time to spend with my family. But when I have that time, I put everything into that. Nothing else. I spend all that time with them.”
― Jose Reyes
“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.”
― Joseph Conrad
“I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one’s own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.”
― Joseph Stiglitz
“When you expect anything from music, you expect too much.”
― Josh Homme
“I was told about ‘Misfits’ when we were in prep for ‘Chronicle’, and I wanted to watch it badly because I’m a fan of that kind of stuff. But I stopped myself because I was very careful about not getting too much contemporary influence.”
― Josh Trank
“I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.”
― Joshua Malina
“Recently, I haven’t had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.”
― Jourdan Dunn
“You can’t improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.”
― Joy Bryant
“These fellows in our league lie too much about their ages.”
― Jud Wilson
“I don’t know where my songs come from… If I knew, I’d know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.”
― Judy Collins
“I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.”
― Judy Greer
“Problems arise when we go through life relying too much or too little on particular traits, which, in turn, can lead to a crisis.”
― Judy Smith
“One thing ‘Game of Thrones’ has taught us all is to guard against too much emotional investment.”
― Julia Gillard
“It’s dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.”
― Julia Leigh
“Fashion hasn’t changed enough yet. There’s too much a stereotype of beauty.”
― Julia Restoin Roitfeld
“There’s been too much attention on marketing. Can’t we just talk about the paintings?”
― Julian Schnabel
“I drink too much coffee.”
― Julianna Margulies
“I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.”
― Julie Andrews
“This whole generation of parents – I’m guilty of it too – does too much for their kids.”
― Julie Brown
“I love Kathy Griffin, I think she’s brilliant, but for me, there is a line when I go OK, that’s too much.”
― Julie Brown
“I prefer the things around town. I’m not one for going out of town too much.”
― Julie London
“I couldn’t watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.”
― Julie Walters
“I take too much luggage. I’m the kind of person who can’t decide whether to pack two or four pairs of trousers, so I usually take them all. I’m getting better but still inclined to take too many items, just in case I need them; I never do.”
― June Whitfield
“I sleep way too much and I read tremendously.”
― Junot Diaz
“I like the idea of matchmaking; I’m just not very good at it. It’s too much pressure!”
― Jurnee Smollett-Bell
“The fans have been great to me. I don’t think it’s asking too much to have me sign something for them.”
― Justin Timberlake
“I’m not worried too much about left, right spectrum; I’m worried about what’s actually going to work to help Canadians who are worried about their own jobs, about their kids’ jobs.”
― Justin Trudeau
“I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.”
― Kaki King
“I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.”
― Kanye West
“I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.”
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.”
― Karl Philipp Moritz
“I’m not a proper traveler. I don’t like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.”
― Karl Pilkington
“Genre mechanics are really tricky because if you pay too much attention to the idea of rules of genre, it becomes pretty stale, pretty fast.”
― Karyn Kusama
“I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don’t engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.”
― Karyn Kusama
“I’m always saying in the studio, ‘My vocals are too loud!’ or ‘My vocals have too much effect on them!’ I like some of it, but I’m not a fan of loading effects onto my voice.”
― Kate Pierson
“I’m too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!”
― Katherine Heigl
“I generally don’t like to talk too much about the character unless I feel stuck or in some trouble.”
― Katherine Waterston
“I think I’m too much of a control freak.”
― Kathy Ireland
“I love profanity, but I think if it’s used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it’s more effective when it’s dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.”
― Katie Aselton
“I keep my key chain simple because I’m a big believer in luck. And I’ve heard that having lots of things on it is too much baggage.”
― Katie Cassidy
“I never listen to music when I write. It’s too much of a distraction.”
― Katie Kitamura
“I try not to eat too much dairy or gluten.”
― Katrina Bowden
“People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.”
― Kay Hagan
“I’m quite lucky, really: I don’t get recognised too much.”
― Kayvan Novak
“It’s funny: I don’t listen to too much rap. I don’t listen to too much older hip-hop. If I do, it’s Ja Rule.”
― Kehlani
“I wasn’t allowed to do commercials. I wasn’t allowed to do TV series. I wasn’t allowed to do soaps or basically anything that would mean I missed too much school.”
― Keira Knightley
“We came out with a rice and a corn chip, then quickly decided we needed to focus on potato. It was just too much for consumers to figure out at once.”
― Keith Belling
“I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it’s about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.”
― Kelly Brook
“Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a market collapse must have been justified by serious economic trouble.”
― Kenneth Fisher
“I miss being able to play my instruments – I’m too much of a physical wreck these days. Playing the vibraphone gives me backache, leg ache, and everything-else ache, and the asthma means I no longer have enough puff to play harmonica.”
― Kenny Baker
“Not to knock TNA, but there’s too much hokey talking and segments that don’t really involve wrestling.”
― Kenny Omega
“When you’re making TV, the last thing you want to do is watch TV. It’s too much.”
― Kerr Smith
“Working from live models is too much trouble; it takes too much time.”
― Kerry James Marshall
“The Fed contributed to the financial crisis, keeping interest rates too low for too long. I give them credit for responding and stabilizing the economy and the financial sector during the crisis. But then they tried to do too much with quantitative easing that went on forever, just dramatically exploding their balance sheets.”
― Kevin Brady
“A novel is too much of a commitment. I tend to peruse Twitter – I check to see if I had any mentions and read the latest messages.”
― Kevin Nealon
“I don’t want to give too much of it away, because I haven’t cleared it with Bob, but the treatment is twenty years, and she, in an effort to protect herself faked her death and did a series of things regarding Dr. Loomis, who has died, because Michael Myers was after her.”
― Kevin Williamson
“I don’t think smaller guys usually bother me on my shot too much.”
― Khris Middleton
“I act like a kid, and I feel like I need to grow up a little bit. A little bit. Not too much.”
― Kian Lawley
“Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.”
― Kim Gordon
“I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.”
― Kim Gordon
“In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.”
― Kimi Raikkonen
“I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.”
― Kit Harington
“The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was very hard, very cynical. I could never have pulled it off.”
― Kristin Davis
“In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.”
― Krzysztof Kieslowski
“I did learn that there’s no point in eating too much Vitamin C because it comes out of your bladder.”
― Kunal Nayyar
“A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.”
― Kurt Lewin
“I’m in a great position now where I’ve got recognition. I’m not recognized too much.”
― Kyle Chandler
“While being late in L.A. is common because of traffic, more than 20 minutes is too much.”
― Kyle Richards
“I get sensationalism, I get gossip, I understand that. If I’m at the dentist, I’ll flip through those magazines as well. But it’s especially annoying when it’s something that is too much.”
― Kylie Minogue
“The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.”
― Lao Tzu
“Don’t you find that the more you know, the more you don’t know and can’t ever learn because there’s too much stuff out there?”
― Larry Hagman
“Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.”
― Larry Merchant
“When I’m in heavy-duty writing mode, there’s something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.”
― Lauren Willig
“I’m a very good packer, but I probably take too much in the way of toiletries. You only really need a toothbrush, as most places you go to have a bar of soap and some shampoo.”
― Laurence Fox
“I do feel like I’m a little too much of a bummer sometimes.”
― Lauv
“Most of the games don’t let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I’ve been watching these girls.”
― Lawrence Taylor
“I was putting forward too much of myself when I was singing.”
― Lea Seydoux
“I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.”
― Lech Walesa
“Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.”
― Lee Iacocca
“Too much may be the equivalent of none at all.”
― Lee Loevinger
“It’s important not to think too much about what you do.”
― Lee Marvin
“I don’t like dining rooms. I think they have too much structure and are too formal.”
― Lee Radziwill
“Touring is too much fun to stop.”
― Lemmy
“Partners and mothers allow men to get away with too much.”
― Lennie James
“If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn’t record it! I love them too much to do that.”
― Leon Bridges
“I have a certain amount of difficulty dealing with too much limelight.”
― Leon Russell
“The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water.”
― Leonard Orr
“I’m not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don’t work that much.”
― Leslie Mann
“People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.”
― Lewis H. Lapham
“There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.”
― Lewis Tappan
“I’ve always used a mallet putter on tour. I get too much face rotation with a blade.”
― Lexi Thompson
“Acting is invigorating. But I don’t analyse it too much. It’s like a dog smelling where it’s going to do its toilet in the morning.”
― Liam Neeson
“It’s good to overexpose yourself with work. But don’t expose yourself too much with the press.”
― Liev Schreiber
“I’m the type of rapper – like, I’m never gonna let myself get washed up. I’m never gonna be in one area too much. That’s why I never wanna move to Cali. Everybody’s out in Cali.”
― Lil Skies
“Lil Boat 2′ people liked, but it was all rap. Some thought it was too much.”
― Lil Yachty
“I hate wearing too much makeup or caked-on foundation.”
― Lili Reinhart
“I don’t think I gave my mom too much trouble as a teenager.”
― Linda Cardellini
“But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.”
― Linford Christie
“We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.”
― Lionel Shriver
“Too much of the GDP over the last generation has gone to too few of the people.”
― Lloyd Blankfein
“I avoid going through places where there’s too much poverty.”
― Loretta Lynn
“I couldn’t write a female who fell to pieces every time something didn’t go right in her life. She would just annoy me too much.”
― Lori Foster
“I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.”
― Lorraine Hansberry
“Three days in a city now and I’m quite flipped. There’s too much noise. I just can’t do with it.”
― Lou Harrison
“There are three main pillars of China’s economy. One is export, which is limited by sluggish global demand. The second is investment. In many sectors, there is already too much investment and overcapacity. The third is consumption.”
― Lou Jiwei
“Talking is always positive. That’s why I talk too much.”
― Louis C. K.
“I don’t think too much about the audience when I’m writing… I’m aware that ‘Holes’ was read by kids as young as 8, up to adults.”
― Louis Sachar
“As coaches, we have to give a lot of information. Too much, I think.”
― Louis van Gaal
“I write too much to ever keep everything just for myself.”
― LP
“He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.”
― Lucy Punch
“If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.”
― Ludwig Borne
“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
“I don’t really invest too much in the future.”
― Luke Grimes
“I do weights and work out different body parts on different days. I don’t do cardio – I did too much in my tennis-playing days!”
― Luke Mitchell
“I follow my interests pretty – I don’t like the word ‘intuitively.’ I follow them in a kind of natural way, without questioning them too much.”
― Lydia Davis
“To tell you the truth, I don’t like talking too much once I leave this booth. I’m talked out.”
― Lynn Samuels
“If there’s something I really like or a chord progression, I write a note in my Blackberry, and maybe a year later, I’ll revisit it and ask, ‘What did I like about that?’ I really don’t try to think too much about it. I like to be fresh.”
― M. Shadows
“I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.”
― Mads Mikkelsen
“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”
― Mae West
“Too much of a good thing can be taxing.”
― Mae West
“It’s nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don’t care too much about money.”
― Magnus Carlsen
“I don’t worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.”
― Mahalia Jackson
“Working-class and poor urban Americans are not benefiting economically from our current food system. It relies too much on transportation, chemical fertilization, big use of water, and also refrigeration.”
― Majora Carter
“It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.”
― Malcolm Forbes
“I cannot digest too much junk food. I just have it once in a blue moon.”
― Manisha Koirala
“When I started to be a coach, I expected a lot – maybe too much – in terms of physical approach, tactics, and technique. There was too little emphasis on human relationships.”
― Manuel Pellegrini
“I wasn’t unsympathetic as a defense attorney, but my strong feelings for the victims were getting in my way. I identified too much with the victim.”
― Marcia Clark
“I just never wanted to be too much in the background. I always wanted to be a part of things.”
― Marcia Gay Harden
“We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we’re taking on too much, but because we’re taking on too little of what really strengthens us.”
― Marcus Buckingham
“Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.”
― Marcus Valerius Martial
“The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.”
― Margaret Drabble
“My mom is very structured. She gets up, she does her prayers, and she eats her oatmeal with blueberries and Greek yogurt, and she has her prayer list, and she doesn’t worry too much about things.”
― Maria Bamford
“The fashion business has to change. There’s too much waste.”
― Maria Cornejo
“If you relax too much, the subconscious plays the role; the conscious does something else, rather than the other way around, which is the way it’s supposed to be.”
― Maria Karnilova
“We are suffering from too much sarcasm.”
― Marianne Moore
“Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.”
― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once – join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.”
― Marilu Henner
“Success, I’ve come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn’t value it too much.”
― Marina and the Diamonds
“I’ve just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.”
― Marisa Tomei
“I love writing comics too much.”
― Marjorie Liu
“I placed too much importance on comparing how much I had to others early on. Then I started realizing time was a far more valuable asset. When I started using money to create more time, I appreciated both more.”
― Mark Cuban
“I eat too much.”
― Mark Hunt
“While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne.”
― Mark Hyman
“Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don’t, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.”
― Mark Hyman
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.”
― Mark Twain
“The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.”
― Mark Zuckerberg
“In my private life, I don’t really do too much because the matches are so tough in the Premier League that it takes time to recover in between.”
― Marouane Fellaini
“I’ve got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.”
― Martin Freeman
“As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because it is all so familiar.”
― Martin Parr
“’Never’ is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.”
― Martin Van Creveld
“I was always thin. I guess I have good genes, so I never worried too much about my weight.”
― Martina McBride
“Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities.”
― Marvin Harris
“I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all.”
― Mary Oliver
“In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.”
― Mary Oliver
“In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.”
― Masa Takayama
“I’m not making comedy albums. That’s too much effort for one joke.”
― Matt Berry
“Actors don’t generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I’ll take suggestions wherever I can.”
― Matt Dillon
“I’ve conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I’ve encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.”
― Matt Groening
“I’m not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.”
― Matthew Lewis
“I wasn’t bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn’t speak up too much in class.”
― Matthew Lewis
“I wouldn’t want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.”
― Matthew Macfadyen
“Chandler’s the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.”
― Matthew Perry
“I don’t like when people expect too much, because then I’ll only be disappointed if things don’t work out.”
― Matthias Schoenaerts
“The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.”
― Maureen Murphy
“They don’t bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.”
― Maurice Gibb
“In my latter years I’ve decided that there’s too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it’s not for me anymore.”
― Max Greenfield
“It’s a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you’re making.”
― Max Irons
“I worry about revealing too much of my life on my Instagram posts.”
― Max Joseph
“I watch a lot DVDs. I don’t leave my room too much.”
― Max Minghella
“We are getting way too much info in the cockpit. Sometimes I switch off the display in my car!”
― Max Verstappen
“I just feel I shouldn’t work too much, because there are so many other things to do.”
― Max von Sydow
“It’s very difficult being an actor and being away for a lot of time, but my sons haven’t complained too much too often.”
― Max von Sydow
“I don’t think anyone’s ever accused me of too much self-love.”
― Meghan Daum
“I rarely know too much about anything I’m getting involved in.”
― Melissa Leo
“I don’t want to talk too much. I want to show it on the pitch.”
― Memphis Depay
“I obsess too much.”
― Meredith Brooks
“I’m very private about my private life. I don’t like to go into too much depth about it.”
― Mia Goth
“We spent too much time attacking Gordon Brown and Labour rather than setting out our own plans. People had decided they wanted change – the thing they were not sure about was the alternative we were offering, so going on and on about Labour missed the point.”
― Michael Ashcroft
“My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.”
― Michael Caine
“Maybe sometimes I’m such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don’t need to do anything, I don’t really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.”
― Michael Chang
“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
― Michael Crichton
“I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.”
― Michael Douglas
“Why haven’t I retired? I love this game too much.”
― Michael Essien
“Yeah, I probably got in too much trouble as a youth to be a politician.”
― Michael Kelly
“We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.”
― Michael Medved
“I watch way too much C-SPAN.”
― Michael Moore
“I didn’t know too much about ‘Ant-Man.’”
― Michael Pena
“To make independent films, you can’t think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.”
― Michael Rapaport
“Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight.”
― Michael Ritchie
“I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.”
― Michel de Montaigne
“I actually got reprimanded by Stevie Nicks, who was like, ‘You’re sharing too much! You need to leave an air of mystery.’”
― Michelle Branch
“I don’t really think too much about special effects because that’s not really something I can clearly visualize, so I leave that to the pros.”
― Michelle Monaghan
“I don’t like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.”
― Michelle Trachtenberg
“I’m too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up that makes them feel emasculated.”
― Michelle Visage
“I didn’t like the name ‘personal shopper.’ That makes it sound like too much of a commodity and not personal enough.”
― Mickey Drexler
“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
― Miguel de Cervantes
“From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.”
― Miguel de Cervantes
“We’ve been using C and C++ way too much – they’re nice, but they’re very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.”
― Miguel de Icaza
“You can have too much reality.”
― Miguel Ferrer
“I used to get hollered at for benching too much.”
― Mike Daniels
“’Black Skinhead’ almost got deaded because it was too much like a soccer song.”
― Mike Dean
“Women are angry if other women think too little of their lovers, and furious if they think too much.”
― Minna Antrim
“I do text a lot. Sometimes, at night, my thumbs hurt because I’ve texted so much, so I definitely text too much.”
― Miranda Cosgrove
“There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking.”
― Miriam Defensor-Santiago
“I should have got thin, but I eat too much. I hate the word ‘moderation.’”
― Miriam Margolyes
“I don’t like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.”
― Miriam Margolyes
“I’ve never done too much inquiry into angels.”
― Misha Collins
“Me personally, I don’t ask too much, but I do ask Him to continue to bless me successfully, financially, and just to keep me humble.”
― Missy Elliott
“Hopefully I don’t annoy people too much.”
― Missy Franklin
“We’re a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much.”
― Mitch McConnell
“I shop once in six months. My friends often point at my shoes to tell me that they’ve worn out. It’s embarrassing, but it doesn’t affect me too much. I shop when I have to.”
― Mithila Palkar
“The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much.”
― Mo Brooks
“Whenever I guard a guard, I don’t want to reach too much, but I will poke at the ball once to get him thinking.”
― Mohamed Bamba
“The fact that I had attained stardom never affected me too much.”
― Mohammad Azharuddin
“I like being to the point. It is not my nature to talk too much or indulge in loose talk. I like being brief, and beyond a certain point, I have nothing to say.”
― Mohammad Azharuddin
“If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.”
― Moliere
“I think it’s damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.”
― Molly Parker
“I don’t go out too much, though I love to dance, but I dont drink.”
― Molly Qerim
“Sometimes I have to be careful not to work out too much because then it makes me so hungry.”
― Molly Sims
“Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.”
― Montesquieu
“I grew up with too much freedom. You can’t define yourself.”
― Moon Unit Zappa
“Often I feel I say too much.”
― Morrissey
“Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer.”
― Mort Sahl
“Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.”
― Mortimer Adler
“At this point, I don’t listen to other people too much. I’m not really that affected by anyone.”
― Mose Allison
“I don’t watch too much football at home. I only watch the Premier League.”
― Mousa Dembele
“I don’t study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I’ve played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.”
― MS Dhoni
“I’m getting too much money to be fighting people.”
― Mustard
“I’m big on simplicity. I’m not too much on all the extra instruments.”
― Mustard
“Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn’t make too much sense to me when I was a kid.”
― Nadia Comaneci
“Sometimes I feel that my message has not been clearly heard. But that is not my fault because I feel like too much is going on in terms of women being victims.”
― Nadia Murad
“When I think about too much content out there, one of the things that comes to mind for me is just the volume of really outstanding creators there are.”
― Nancy Dubuc
“I do not have any pets. We travel too much.”
― Nancy Kerrigan
“It’s very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head.”
― Naomi Alderman
“I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.”
― Naomie Harris
“Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.”
― Nas
“If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.”
― Natalie Clifford Barney
“The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.”
― Natalie Imbruglia
“Almost everyone’s instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.”
― Nate Silver
“People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.”
― Nate Silver
“A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It’s not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.”
― Naveen Andrews
“Odisha faces natural calamities almost every year. The assistance we get from the Centre is mostly for temporary restoration of infrastructure. We have to spend a lot from state’s own funds to work for the long-term. This puts too much stress on our finances. Precisely for this reason, Odisha should be considered for special category status.”
― Naveen Patnaik
“Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can’t deal with life, or the truth.”
― Neal Boortz
“It’s always good to get good reviews. I read my reviews. There are a lot of writers who don’t read their reviews at all. I read them; then I put them away because it’s not good to engage with them too much.”
― Neel Mukherjee
“One must take things lightly, after all, we are entertainers and acting isn’t rocket science. The trick is, not to take criticism to the heart or analyse things too much.”
― Neha Dhupia
“Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.”
― Neil Armstrong
“In Dreams… well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.”
― Neil Jordan
“I enjoy scaring people too much to let it go!”
― Neil Marshall
“I think actors worry too much about age. They should just get out there and make sure they’re up for whatever jobs come along.”
― Neil Morrissey
“Too much attention and hoopla doesn’t agree with my temperament.”
― Neil Peart
“I’ve never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It’s like, OK, great, does that mean I don’t have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?”
― Neneh Cherry
“I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual; I’m too abstract; I think too much.”
― Newt Gingrich
“You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much.”
― Newt Gingrich
“I was making too much money. I was too young. I didn’t know how to deal.”
― Nicky Jam
“Most people would agree that the E.U. is too bureaucratic, not transparent or democratic enough and that it often interferes too much in matters that are best left to national governments.”
― Nicola Sturgeon
“I’m a hoarder, but then, when it all gets too much, I turn into a ruthless chucker. I’m very good at clearing out and giving stuff away. But I’m equally skilled at shoving things in a cupboard, shutting the door, and calling that ‘cleared up.’”
― Nicola Walker
“I love life too much to be bitter.”
― Nicolas Sarkozy
“I don’t know if there is too much bacon! I used to have bacon parties. That’s how much I love bacon.”
― Nicole Byer
“For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend’s garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!”
― Nigel Dennis
“Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.”
― Nigel Mansell
“Patience is a virtue in life, of course, but it’s not something we F1 people have too much of.”
― Niki Lauda
“A huge segment of the country has always felt overtaxed. In 1938, when taxes were roughly 17% of income, a ‘Fortune’ survey found that nearly half of all Americans thought they paid too much relative to what they got in return.”
― Nina Easton
“I am too much of a team member to be separated from my team.”
― Nita Ambani
“If you worry too much, it shows in your acting, and it ceases to be effortless.”
― Nithya Menen
“One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a ‘crisis of democracy’ from too much participation of the masses.”
― Noam Chomsky
“Guantanamo is still open, but it’s unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.”
― Noam Chomsky
“I don’t know anything about politics. I wouldn’t put too much into my prediction on politics.”
― Norm MacDonald
“Be interesting, be enthusiastic… and don’t talk too much.”
― Norman Vincent Peale
“I’m trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.”
― Novak Djokovic
“I didn’t act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.”
― Odeya Rush
“If the television market collapses – and it will collapse – then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that’s not a good thing.”
― Ofra Strauss
“I actually don’t like boxers who talk too much.”
― Oleksandr Usyk
“I don’t own a scale, and Tao banned the word ‘fat’ from our house. If we eat too much, we say, ‘I feel clogged up.’”
― Olivia Wilde
“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.”
― Orson Welles
“I always like teaser trailers because they don’t give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is.”
― Oscar Isaac
“I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don’t go around surfing too much.”
― Oscar Nunez
“The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.”
― Oscar Wilde
“When I was a bit younger, I made too much of trying to stick up for myself. But I don’t need to prove that I’m not soft or too young any more.”
― Owen Farrell
“Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.”
― P. Chidambaram
“Well, I don’t really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.”
― P. J. Harvey
“The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don’t know how, like George Bush senior.”
― P. J. O’Rourke
“Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.”
― Paige Craig
“Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.”
― Paloma Elsesser
“I don’t really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don’t think about what happened yesterday.”
― Pamela Anderson
“Too much tension can do bad things to you.”
― Paolo Maldini
“The success was a difficult thing for me to get my head round. When it gets too much, I just have to disappear – to sort my head.”
― Paolo Nutini
“If somebody has too much stress about their appearance, they can overcome their inferiority complex through surgery.”
― Park Shin-hye
“While make-up helps to enhance one’s features, too much of it tends to hide a person’s features.”
― Park Shin-hye
“I think too much, which is a blessing and a curse.”
― PartyNextDoor
“I don’t worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.”
― Pat Metheny
“I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.”
― Pat Travers
“I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.”
― Patricia Richardson
“My wife and I try not to get into each other’s work too much.”
― Patrick Dempsey
“When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.”
― Patrick Dempsey
“If you’re in love with someone maybe you can show it too much.”
― Patsy Kensit
“I started to perform when I was 12… I don’t talk too much. I let the music do the talking.”
― Patty Loveless
“I like to work – I probably work too much.”
― Paul Giamatti
“We do not know with any of these neuropsychiatric disorders what the ultimate basis is. Let’s say you could find that too much of protein X was involved in schizophrenia. Would you then know what schizophrenia is? You would not.”
― Paul Greengard
“The national polls are distorted. To get a national sample, they rely too much on Hispanics from New York and California, which is where large populations are but also where most of the radical Hispanics are.”
― Paul Manafort
“I don’t want affirmative action – too much affirmative, not enough action.”
― Paul Mooney
“There is still too much pressure on short-termism in terms of the drivers of success.”
― Paul Polman
“I don’t consider myself a comedian because I don’t really concern myself too much with jokes.”
― Paul Rudd
“Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we’re talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.”
― Paul Ryan
“I am always loath to assign goalkeepers too much importance, but you have to make an exception for the greats.”
― Paul Scholes
“I don’t think it’s a director’s job to peek behind the curtain too much.”
― Paul Thomas Anderson
“’Ageism,’ or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don’t get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. ‘Oh, they’re too old to make films or write books.’”
― Paul Weller
“I think it’s a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It’s why investors try to spread their portfolio round.”
― Paul Wolfowitz
“I learned that round four of a major is really not too much different than rounds one through three. I didn’t keep to my game plan in the ’08 U.S. Women’s Open for the final round. That won’t happen again!”
― Paula Creamer
“When I model I pretty much go blank. You can’t think too much or it doesn’t work.”
― Paulina Porizkova
“A mistake in judgment isn’t fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.”
― Pauline Kael
“I don’t think I’m a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.”
― Pele
“Don’t waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it’ll make you bugnutty.”
― Penn Jillette
“There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.”
― Pete Domenici
“If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.”
― Pete Sampras
“I’m a little bit of a makeout king. I don’t discriminate too much.”
― Pete Wentz
“Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it’s the ultimate example of too much information.”
― Peter Bart
“I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.”
― Peter Berg
“This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we’ve had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.”
― Peter Brimelow
“There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.”
― Peter Capaldi
“I did a paper round as a kid, but the early mornings were too much. My dad took it over, so I was getting paid 15 quid a week, but he was doing it!”
― Peter Crouch
“I’m often guilty of overcooking and too much arrangement and throwing too much at it. But I think as I get older, I’m learning better when to be empty and when to be full.”
― Peter Gabriel
“When you’ve travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you’re young and full of energy. In the middle stage, you indulge too much and are scared of daylight. Then, in the final stage, you’ve seen it all, so you tend to take things a lot easier.”
― Peter Hook
“It’s not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming.”
― Peter Jackson
“When you’ve got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it’s too much.”
― Peter Mayhew
“I wrote ‘Hereafter’ quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.”
― Peter Morgan
“I don’t sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.”
― Peter Sotos
“With my characters, I prefer to not say too much, and in fact, I tend to cut down some of the lines in most scripts I get.”
― Peter Stormare
“I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.”
― Peter Straub
“I’ve never really been somebody that thinks too much about what I’ve done.”
― Peter Uihlein
“Sometimes I put too much pressure on my back.”
― Petra Kvitova
“I’m not someone who enjoys being recognised too much.”
― Petra Kvitova
“I’m not a good cook, unfortunately. I’ve tried a few times, but I don’t like it too much.”
― Petra Kvitova
“When I was younger, I used to think ahead too much, and that would make me lose concentration in the match I was playing.”
― Petra Kvitova
“We sincerely believed that we don’t tax too little in Washington. We spend too much.”
― Phil Gingrey
“No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He’s just too much himself and not you.”
― Philip Levine
“I try not to plan that too much.”
― Philip Seymour Hoffman
“I do like the idea of women not showing too much, of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered.”
― Phoebe Philo
“Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.”
― Pico Iyer
“I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.”
― Pierre Bayle
“Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.”
― Pierre Beaumarchais
“Danger breeds best on too much confidence.”
― Pierre Corneille
“But I don’t read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.”
― Piers Anthony
“I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.”
― Piet Mondrian
“To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.”
― Plato
“Too much freedom can lead to the soul’s decay.”
― Prince
“I’m probably a bit of a cheeky grandson, like my brother as well. We both take the mickey a bit too much.”
― Prince William
“I don’t think it matters too much if you are batting or bowling first on this pitch. The wicket remains the same throughout the 40 overs. There is only the dew factor that probably comes in the second innings.”
― Prithvi Shaw
“A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.”
― Quintilian
“A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.”
― Quintilian
“Not to harp on too much about Ma, but it’s a misconception that she is formidable. She calls herself a patsy.”
― Rachael Stirling
“I’ve been trying not to think too much about the rumours of clubs being linked with me.”
― Radamel Falcao
“We don’t relate to her too much because you don’t want the heroic character to not be heroic.”
― Radha Mitchell
“I remember when I was a younger cat, I always thought the veteran guys talked too much.”
― Rajon Rondo
“I don’t listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!”
― Ralph Stanley
“Money often costs too much.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There’s almost too much venture capital in India – there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there’s a lot money chasing deals here.”
― Ram Shriram
“I don’t stress too much on things, be it failure or success.”
― Rana Daggubati
“If I feel like too much of a star, I can head to Chennai and be a regular guy.”
― Rana Daggubati
“I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.”
― Ranbir Kapoor
“It may seem that with the new breed of actors – Arjun, Varun, Siddharth, Ayushmann, Sushant – there is suddenly too much of a hustle to make space for oneself, but acting is subjective. And we motivate one another.”
― Ranveer Singh
“When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can’t reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.”
― Ray Davies
“I always felt, as a listener at a show, that when there was too much banter between the artist and the audience that it detracted from the show. I more enjoyed shows where the guys came out and they just played.”
― Ray LaMontagne
“I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time.”
― Rebecca Sugar
“For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it’s too disruptive.”
― Rebel Wilson
“Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.”
― Red Skelton
“For a while, I Photoshopped too much. When you first learn what you can do, you really go overboard sometimes.”
― Ree Drummond
“I’m a bit of a glutton – I eat too much of all that is good to eat.”
― Rene Redzepi
“I don’t have a philosophy in a nutshell; I would go on and on too much.”
― Rene Ricard
“Honestly, I’m not a big activism or politic guy. I wouldn’t say I’m super educated in that stuff, and I feel like I shouldn’t speak on things that I don’t understand too much.”
― Rich Brian
“The reason I wrote ‘Hit List’ is the 50 mysterious deaths of witnesses to the JFK assassination. We’re talking about CIA agents, FBI agents, reporters, people who had foreknowledge, or people who spoke too much afterward.”
― Richard Belzer
“I don’t really like making too much of a statement with what I’m wearing.”
― Richard C. Armitage
“When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn’t put too much emphasis on the word ‘just.’ There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.”
― Richard Dawkins
“I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up.”
― Richard Elman
“I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the ’60s and the proliferation of media’ it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.”
― Richard Hell
“But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.”
― Richard Krajicek
“Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it’s not wholesale.”
― Richard Louv
“’Game of Thrones’ couldn’t be a movie. There’s too much in it. You couldn’t do it justice.”
― Richard Madden
“I don’t like the Sunday newspapers – I read them because I have to. ‘Sunday Times,’ ‘Telegraph,’ ‘Independent’ on Sunday – I find them heavy and too much! I prefer ‘The Economist.’”
― Richard Quest
“Sunk costs? We pay too much attention to them.”
― Richard Thaler
“We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher’s words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.”
― Rick Perry
“I think it is a mistake for candidates, or once they get elected in office, to be dwelling too much on the topic of markets.”
― Rick Santelli
“I’ve got a terrible knee from too much tennis.”
― Ridley Scott
“I don’t like when there’s too much conversation because I’m shy and it makes me uncomfortable.”
― Rita Rudner
“I don’t really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way.”
― RJ Mitte
“In many countries, when I gave the name ‘Rap Monster,’ I often heard that it was ‘too much.’”
― RM
“I try not to have too much of an ego. I’ll do anything.”
― Rob Schneider
“Hardly anyone liked R.E.M. who didn’t like them way too much, so part of being an R.E.M. fan meant getting wildly overinvested and then feeling vaguely disappointed by whatever they did next.”
― Rob Sheffield
“It’s all about being sharp and not taking too much damage. That’s always the game plan.”
― Robbie Lawler
“I don’t really dabble into the politics of MMA too much.”
― Robbie Lawler
“The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.”
― Robert Anton Wilson
“I don’t avoid any particular food. But I don’t eat too much.”
― Robert Budi Hartono
“Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president – pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome of federal social engineering that costs too much and does too little.”
― Robert Dallek
“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.”
― Robert Frost
“People throw legacy and dynasty around a bit too much.”
― Robert Horry
“Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.”
― Robert K. Greenleaf
“There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or call for legislation which has no possibility of passage.”
― Robert Kennedy
“In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there’s too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.”
― Robert Kiyosaki
“As a kid, I didn’t drift into the comic world too much because I preferred to read fantasies novels and science fiction.”
― Robert Sheehan
“We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.”
― Robert Trout
“We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.”
― Robert W. Welch, Jr.
“I spend far too much on taxis. Now, if anyone suggests we get the Tube I say, ‘The Tube! I’d forgotten about that.’”
― Robert Webb
“Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.”
― Robert Wilson Lynd
“Maybe I think too much.”
― Roberto Cavalli
“What is too much? There is no such thing!”
― Roberto Cavalli
“I don’t have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.”
― Robin Gibb
“I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.”
― Rodney Dangerfield
“I reveal too much of myself.”
― Roger Avary
“You can do too much and oversell your market.”
― Roger Daltrey
“Too much of our society looks for people to fail.”
― Roger Goodell
“Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can’t talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I’m talking about.”
― Roger Rees
“We saw how a lot of companies charge upwards of $1500 for a basic LSAT course, and we all thought that is simply way too much, even if the instruction was good.”
― Ron DeSantis
“There is no singular ‘reason’ why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain.”
― Ron Eglash
“Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama’s face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?”
― Ron Fournier
“We spend too much, we borrow too much, and we distort the markets. The bigger the distortions have lasted, the bigger the bust will be.”
― Ron Paul
“If I wear too much tartan, I tend to look like a Thermos flask.”
― Ronnie Corbett
“Money costs too much.”
― Ross MacDonald
“Republicans spend too much time on defense. We have to be on offense. We have to point out the truth. President Obama stole seven hundred million dollars from Medicare. Republicans want to preserve Medicare. Obamacare robs from Medicare.”
― Rudy Giuliani
“Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.”
― Rudyard Kipling
“Intrigue is so much more effective. I don’t like to be over-prescriptive of an audience. The same with a book or with art – people shouldn’t read too much before they explore.”
― Rupert Friend
“Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families.”
― Russ Carnahan
“In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you.”
― Ruud van Nistelrooy
“Run for the door if a guy has too much gel in his hair and is too tan and it’s not even summer.”
― Ryan Hansen
“I love books. Probably too much for my own good.”
― Ryan Holiday
“I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.”
― Sadie Frost
“My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that’s my comfort level.”
― Samaire Armstrong
“I like to stay around grounded people, and plus, I’m working so much, I don’t get out too much.”
― Samara Weaving
“Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.”
― Samuel Johnson
“There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.”
― Samuel Johnson
“I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.”
― Samuel L. Jackson
“Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.”
― Samuel Richardson
“I love this game too much to not give my best attempt.”
― Sandeep Singh
“Sometimes I feel I can’t quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I’m too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.”
― Sandra Cisneros
“I started acting when I was 17. I started modeling when I was 13. It helps in the way that you don’t get fazed by cameras too much.”
― Sandrine Holt
“I have this mindset and mentality every time I touch the score, and I really truly believe that. It’s something I try to do a little too much.”
― Saquon Barkley
“I like food way too much to not eat.”
― Sara Paxton
“I’ve read a lot of fiction from writers just starting out, and the dialogue is a little bit forced, or it’s almost too teenager-y, or too slang-y or putting too much technology or trends in there. I try to stay pretty trend-neutral. I try not to mention too many current bands or current TV shows.”
― Sara Shepard
“I don’t like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.”
― Sara Zarr
“I think I must have too much to eat, we were doing a scene where we were crawling, and I ripped my trousers. I was very embarrassed. I was sown in, stitched in, quickly!”
― Sarah Sutton
“I don’t know too much about Bollywood at all, but I’ve done quite a bit of dancing… and not much singing.”
― Satya Bhabha
“I tend not to dwell too much on ultimates.”
― Saul Perlmutter
“Maybe I would go back to West Jerusalem without too much bother if I could lie to my kids and tell them they are equal citizens in a democratic state.”
― Sayed Kashua
“I think that’s what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.”
― Schoolboy Q
“I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer’s cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.”
― Scott Adams
“There is no such thing as too much rehearsal. When Daniel Day-Lewis told Steven Spielberg he needed a year for ‘Lincoln,’ I understand that.”
― Scott Glenn
“I don’t like re-writing very much. The fourth and the fifth draft – that’s too much like work. There’s not much inspiration about it, and the lawyerly side kicks in – being very careful and somewhat technical.”
― Scott Turow
“A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they’re screaming and yelling too much. It’s more singing than screaming.”
― Sebastian Bach
“Yes, in general, I think there is too much club football on TV.”
― Sepp Blatter
“My weakness as an actor is that I think too much.”
― Seth Numrich
“Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered them incapable of reproducing within their own species. But do extraterrestrial infants toddle through your neighborhood?”
― Seth Shostak
“Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They’re about telling stories.”
― Seth Shostak
“Human beings understand too much.”
― Seung Sahn
“I have written too much about lives – I feel I have lived for too long.”
― Shan Sa
“An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.”
― Shane Black
“If you take the yin-yang, it has a piece of the other inside itself. You can’t be too much of one thing and be balanced.”
― Shannon Lee
“If you put too much pressure on the idea of people watching you, it stops you being able to watch people.”
― Shaun Evans
“You get bored if you do the same thing too much.”
― Shawn Ashmore
“People put too much emphasis on looks.”
― Shawn Johnson
“I don’t really look into the past too much.”
― Shawn Mendes
“TV is just such a fast-moving medium that you do what you can do, and what you can’t do, you don’t worry about too much.”
― Shawn Ryan
“With a gimmick, there isn’t much substance. If you play to the crowd too much, it can go bad.”
― Sheamus
“If you think too much about something, you’re not feeling it.”
― Shelby Lynne
“I don’t think people watch too much TV anymore. I don’t.”
― Shenaz Treasury
“Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.”
― Sherry Turkle
“When women are stressed, they either eat too much and get fat, or they eat not so much and get thin, and the latter is what happens to me.”
― Shirley Eaton
“I have no qualms working on a quintessential Bollywood film, but I can’t work on mindless no-brainers. I have too much self-respect for that.”
― Shweta Tripathi
“Sometimes, after I finish the lyrics and have all the melodies and harmonies and the pop and vocal, I’ll be like, ‘I have to keep it. I love it too much.’”
― Sia
“I try not to do too much self-analysis apart from when I’m actually paying $170 an hour for it. I try to keep it in the room.”
― Sia
“I have to make sure I don’t eat too much chocolate. You can’t imagine how hard that is for a German to not eat chocolate.”
― Sibel Kekilli
“’Endgame’ resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in advance, you forget the element that gives the play life – the audience.”
― Simon McBurney
“Sometimes, musicians worry too much about how beautifully they are playing.”
― Simon Rattle
“Beethoven was always too much. He’s not slightly anything – he’s very everything.”
― Simon Rattle
“What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.”
― Simon Wiesenthal
“I don’t do much press. I don’t like to talk about my music too much before I do it.”
― Skrillex
“One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where I confuse myself and I confuse my fans.”
― Skylar Grey
“Most movies are too brightly lit. I think that may come from a lot of directors having watched too much TV.”
― Sondra Locke
“I think that most films have too much music in them; it overwhelms an audience.”
― Sondra Locke
“I don’t want to spend too much time dwelling on what I’ve already done because there is still so much to do.”
― Sophia Amoruso
“I’ve been wanting to have a child since Dashiell was 1, but I was working too much, and there was a lot going on in my relationship.”
― Sophie B. Hawkins
“With everything in my life, I don’t think too much ahead.”
― Sophie Okonedo
“Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.”
― Spencer Abraham
“The league has been good to all of us in terms of what we get out of all these TV contracts and everything, so it would be a little disingenuous to complain too much. But if I had my way, we’d take a five-day break at Christmas. I mean it.”
― Stan Van Gundy
“I think we disregard fans too much. They drive our sport. The money has gotten so big that it has become a corporate league other than the nosebleed seats.”
― Stan Van Gundy
“The first years when I came to New York, everything was too big and too much. For me, it was too difficult here, but bit by bit, it became one of my favorite places.”
― Stan Wawrinka
“The problem with our region is that there are areas with oil and too much money, and then there are places such as south Lebanon and the Palestinian territories where there is no work, and instead of developing industry, they become dependent on oil money – this results in extremism.”
― Stef Wertheimer
“I do not fear death, as I cherish life too much.”
― Stefan Karl Stefansson
“The sets on ‘Defiance’ are incredible. I’ve never really seen a set like this, where the world is so built around us. There’s not too much left for us to have to imagine.”
― Stephanie Leonidas
“I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.”
― Stephen Hunter
“I’ve learned you can’t write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around too much, and there are too many typos.”
― Stephen Stills
“Republicans went off track. We were spending too much money.”
― Steve Chabot
“Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them.”
― Steve Jurvetson
“Socialism? We’ve had way too much of it already.”
― Steve Steckler
“Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn’t bother me too much. It wasn’t really a musical threat.”
― Steve Winwood
“The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don’t invest, their holding too much money. We haven’t heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody’s afraid of the government and there’s no need soft peddling it, it’s the truth. It is the truth.”
― Steve Wynn
“A knighthood would be a bit too much. An OBE or an MBE or whatever they are called, one of those would be more elegant.”
― Steven Berkoff
“Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.”
― Steven Erikson
“My head’s not in the clouds, but I think I’ve gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.”
― Steven Spielberg
“Let’s not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don’t.”
― Steven Van Zandt
“My musical tastes are very diverse. I just never felt like listening to certain kinds of bands. There’s too much great stuff out there.”
― Steven Wilson
“Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn’t have any competition.”
― Sumner Redstone
“What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn’t try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.”
― Susan Eisenhower
“The first neurologist I saw just thought I was partying too much, and he stuck by that claim even after my family insisted that he was wrong.”
― Susannah Cahalan
“I don’t want actors to be writers. I think it’s too much responsibility.”
― Susanne Bier
“I despise women wearing too much makeup. It hides their actual beauty.”
― Sushant Singh Rajput
“I didn’t care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn’t feel like I wanted to do.”
― Suzanne Farrell
“I respect a woman too much to marry her.”
― Sylvester Stallone
“If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.”
― Sylvester Stallone
“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.”
― T. S. Eliot
“I don’t say too much. Quavo and Offset – I don’t talk as much as they talk. I observe the scene.”
― Takeoff
“I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn’t gain too much weight.”
― Tamsin Egerton
“I’d love to do something at Marvel, but I don’t think I would do a seven-movie deal. That’s a bit too much for me.”
― Taron Egerton
“It was Britney’s movie. I liked that movie. It didn’t get too much love, but a lot of people really liked it.”
― Taryn Manning
“I have learnt my boundaries and what I need to do to preserve my energy and not give out too much of myself every night.”
― Tash Sultana
“I’m sure I tried being mean at one point, and I don’t think it worked. It’s too much work.”
― Taylor Louderman
“Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in ‘Waiting for Guffman,’ but on Thanksgiving you’re putting on a show!”
― Ted Allen
“When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.”
― Ted Cruz
“I think there’s too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.”
― Ted Naifeh
“There’s no such thing as ‘too much TV,’ unless we’re all spending more and not watching more.”
― Ted Sarandos
“I really wasn’t on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn’t see too much.”
― Ted Shackelford
“If you don’t think too good, don’t think too much.”
― Ted Williams
“I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.”
― Terence
“I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.”
― Terence
“We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.”
― Terence
“Too much liberty corrupts us all.”
― Terence
“They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.”
― Terence
“I tend not to read reviews; there’s too much out there in cyberspace.”
― Terence Winter
“I don’t really like to talk too much about what I’ve been working on. I’m more of a ‘show’ type of guy.”
― Terry Rozier
“I used to rely too much on arrangements and production, things like dancers and explosions.”
― Thalia
“I can’t live with art: I’d spend too much time tweaking it.”
― Thelma Golden
“I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.”
― Theo Van Gogh
“I think if characters change too much, it’s unrealistic; their whole fabric of who they are as a person doesn’t just disappear.”
― Theodore Melfi
“We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
“I never envy the guys who get attention for partying too much or behaving badly.”
― Thomas Gibson
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“It’s hard to talk about love without sounding either cheesy, or revealing too much personal stuff.”
― Thomas Mars
“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
― Thomas Sowell
“Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”
― Thomas Sowell
“We cannot play with fear nor with too much confidence.”
― Thomas Tuchel
“It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.”
― Thucydides
“Coaches give you too much information. I’ve been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.”
― Tiffeny Milbrett
“It’s hard to find logic in things sometimes. That’s why I can’t analyze things too much, because it often doesn’t make much sense.”
― Tim Burton
“I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.”
― Tim Walberg
“Symbiosis can fail in various different ways: if there’s too much stomach bacteria in my stomach, I might have some problems. If there’s too little, I might have some problems. There’s a sort of dynamic system there.”
― Timothy Morton
“The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot – too much, in retrospect – about the rich.”
― Timothy Noah
“For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn’t seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders.”
― Tina Brown
“Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.”
― Tino Sehgal
“They say I spend too much money, so they take it and put it away for me. What do I spend it on? Oh, old records and presents and things.”
― Tiny Tim
“I don’t believe in using too much graphic violence, although I’ve done it. It’s better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.”
― Tobe Hooper
“I’m first and foremost a company man, surprising as that is. I love Warner Brothers. That’s where I have a deal. That’s where I’ve been for years. So I don’t really interact too much with other studios and do things with other studios and I don’t necessarily read scripts from other studios.”
― Todd Phillips
“I don’t get mad too much.”
― Tom Cochrane
“I’ve been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I’ve been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.”
― Tom Golisano
“The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that’s least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.”
― Tom Hayden
“Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.”
― Tom Hodgkinson
“Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.”
― Tom Watson
“I think any stereotyping is too much.”
― Tommy Lee Jones
“You litter poems with too much learning when you’re younger.”
― Tony Harrison
“I don’t want to give too much ink to foolish men.”
― Tori Amos
“The 200 is tragic! It’s my favorite race, but it takes so much out of the body – and it’s too much time to think.”
― Tori Bowie
“You can’t ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.”
― Tove Jansson
“A statement necklace glams up any outfit without feeling like too much.”
― Tracy Reese
“A lot of people talk too much. They speak… except they don’t.”
― Travis Fimmel
“I try not to pay too much respect to the players I am playing against.”
― Trent Alexander-Arnold
“Most opponents aren’t Ronaldo! You have to show him respect but not too much, because that’s when you get taken advantage of.”
― Trent Alexander-Arnold
“I was never a Lime Wire guy because it’s too much hassle to find the song.”
― Trent Reznor
“Harry Patch didn’t get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much.”
― Trevor Dunn
“Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don’t use it, so I haven’t been playing guitar too much lately.”
― Trevor Rabin
“When I meet pastors, I’m not like, ‘Hey, you should go out there and be a rapper.’ Because for so many of us, I think it would just pull us away from our congregations too much to be able to serve them like we should.”
― Trip Lee
“Whenever I have too much downtime, I start to get sad.”
― Tyler Posey
“It is important not to trust people too much.”
― V. S. Naipaul
“Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.”
― Valerie Azlynn
“I keep a lot of things inside. I don’t like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn’t me.”
― Vernon Wells
“I unleashed my wilder side in ‘Manmarziyaan’ while playing the character, who is impulsive, colourful, does things without thinking too much.”
― Vicky Kaushal
“There are, in fact, very few organic zinc compounds; only the first members of the series, which correspond to the simplest organic radicals, can be prepared without too much difficulty, but they have the disadvantage of being spontaneously inflammable in air and are consequently very dangerous to handle.”
― Victor Grignard
“I don’t like my ego stroked too much.”
― Victoria Azarenka
“I desperately want a dog, but I’ve been told I travel too much, and I’m not allowed to have a dog.”
― Victoria Pratt
“The intensity of ‘Arjun Reddy’ was too much for me.”
― Vijay Deverakonda
“If you start giving too much importance to pressure, you won’t be in the present.”
― Vijay Shankar
“I would be lying if I would say that I never wanted to be a lead actor. But at the same time, I would say it’s a lot of responsibility also; it’s too much responsibility.”
― Vikrant Massey
“My personal opinion is that I’m in the media too much. I’m not a politician, I’m a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.”
― Viktor Vekselberg
“I talk too much.”
― Vin Diesel
“Trust not too much to appearances.”
― Virgil
“One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.”
― Virginia Woolf
“My body is not the same anymore for training. It’s too much pain. I did more than 14 surgeries. I left everything in the Octagon.”
― Vitor Belfort
“Training for five-round fights is too much for the body.”
― Vitor Belfort
“We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.”
― Vivienne Westwood
“At first, I wanted to start my own label, but it was such a full-time job that it became too much.”
― Vonda Shepard
“My nature is to worry about everything too much.”
― Vonda Shepard
“I go out, but not too much. When I’m on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.”
― Wale
“I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore – probably because I do too much of it.”
― Wale
“Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.”
― Walter Annenberg
“The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.”
― Walter Benjamin
“I think people make way too much of ratings.”
― Walter Cronkite
“I love Costas. He’s knows too much, but he’s a good guy.”
― Wanda Sykes
“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful’.”
― Warren Buffett
“My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there’s too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.”
― Washed Out
“One of the most comical comments that my ‘Wendy’ watchers said is, ‘She talks too much!’ Duh, I’m a talk show host!”
― Wendy Williams
“The dull externals of the screenwriter’s working life are well known: We are the people taking up too much table space at cafes.”
― Whit Stillman
“There’s something really admirable about French culture and an attraction in how independent it is from our own. So, it’s odd that in other countries that are very American-influenced – who seem to care more about the Oscars than anyone here does – there’s both anti-Americanism and also too much America.”
― Whit Stillman
“Generally speaking, companies get into bankruptcy as a kind of meritocracy. Somebody made some sort of big mistake, to get into bankruptcy, and very often, a part of the mistake is too much leverage.”
― Wilbur Ross
“Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.”
― Will Durant
“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.”
― Will Rogers
“Never let yesterday use up too much of today.”
― Will Rogers
“People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.”
― Will Self
“I don’t really go for the swagger thing too much.”
― Will Sergeant
“I talk too much. I eat too much.”
― Willard Scott
“The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.”
― William Bligh
“Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius… he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.”
― William Godwin
“The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.”
― William Howard Taft
“Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.”
― William J. Clinton
“I like stirring things up. I’m on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don’t get in too much trouble.”
― William Joyce
“If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.”
― William Lyon Mackenzie King
“I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.”
― William Scott
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
― William Shakespeare
“Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.”
― William Wycherley
“I try to keep my skincare routine very simple and don’t put too much on my face.”
― Winnie Harlow
“I feel like people put too much on the title of a role model.”
― Winnie Harlow
“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”
― Winston Churchill
“There’s simply too much fuss about myself.”
― Wislawa Szymborska
“Here at Stoke, I cannot exert too much influence, simply because there is a lack of quality around me.”
― Xherdan Shaqiri
“I don’t want to make people think too much.”
― YG
“We must never bend too much.”
― Yitzhak Shamir
“I work very physically. I don’t like to intellectualize too much about what we’re doing, or analyze it.”
― Yorgos Lanthimos
“I have to admit that I can’t take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It’s just too much.”
― Yotam Ottolenghi
“For many centuries, even thousands of years, patriotism worked quite well. Of course, it led to wars an so forth, but we shouldn’t focus too much on the bad.”
― Yuval Noah Harari
“I was a tomboy and didn’t pay too much attention to my clothes.”
― Yvonne Strahovski
“Ironically, I’m a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can’t lie!”
― Yvonne Strahovski
“I had a blast in the ’90s, perhaps too much fun, and maybe I should have worked a lot harder and partied a lot less, but I definitely don’t regret the 12 years I spent living out in L.A.”
― Zach Galligan
“I don’t really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I’ll start to pitch according to that.”
― Zack Greinke
“I’m the type of guy where, if I see, like, 20 songs, I don’t even wanna listen to one of ’em ’cause it’s too much.”
― Zaytoven
“I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.”
― Zendaya
“For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say ‘by choice’ because I have never ‘accidentally’ eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.”
― Zig Ziglar
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