17 Movie Quotes about Exaggeration (+ Sound Clips)

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Memorable quotes about exaggeration, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 You lied. -I exaggerated.

Leonard Nimoy as Captain Spock; Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

2 The newspapers always exaggerate the importance of an air accident. -It would be very important to me if I were in one.

Robert Newton as Gustave Pardee; Robert Stack as John Sullivan in The High and the Mighty (1954)

3 A _? Oh, God. People exaggerate so much here.

Phoebe Cates as Linda Barrett in Fast Times at Ridgemont High

4 That would account for your exaggerated hysteria over a simple blemish on the furniture. -Blemish!

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

5 Overdoing it just a skosh, aren't we?

Jim Cummings as Darkwing Duck in Darkwing Duck (1991)

6 My death was greatly exaggerated.

Quote from Megamind (2010)

7 No, not a liar. You just have a common and likable tendency toward exaggeration.

Quote from Cool Hand Luke

8 See, I'm afraid I sort of exaggerated in my letters. I showed off a little, you know. She's expecting to meet a pretty important man. Well, I'm in no mood to act important tonight.

James Stewart as Alfred Kralik in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

9 Some say that pirates steal and should be feared and hated. I say we're victims of bad press, it's all exaggerated.

Tim Curry as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island

10 Do I paint a correct picture, or do I exaggerate?

Quote from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)