From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

Cat Power

Love Yin Win

It's cliched but football has its own language.

Adam Lallana

Age T Own

It may sound cliched, but it just shows that when you don't let people put you in a box then anything can happen.

Adebayo Akinfenwa

You Us UN

We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it's all about getting away from that cliched old tired idea that the future belongs to the West.

Alastair Reynolds

Science Future Where

I don't want to be cliched, but Buckingham Palace is beautiful, and the old red telephone booths are really interesting to me. I've always wanted to see those.

Alessia Cara

Ways Way Wanted

One thing I would say is that I think in any environment that you work in, there's always going to be one or two people who you don't like. But there just wasn't that on 'Games Of Thrones'. I know it sounds cheesy and cliched, but it was like a big family.

Alfie Allen

Work Men Family

It is cliched, but you have to beat the best to be the best.

Ali Krieger

You T He

I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.

Alice Oswald

War Art Wrong

It is going to sound cliched, but my husband has been incredibly helpful.

Ana Patricia Botin

Us UN T

This would sound cliched, but my parents have been my biggest support system.

Ananya Birla

Would Up UN

Mrs. Palin is history in a dress. And her script is straight out of Hollywood - like those teen movies with the cliched ending featuring the female valedictorian delivering the speech of a lifetime projecting a bold and transformative future with an independent-minded woman in charge.

Andrew Breitbart

Time Teen Movies

It may sound cliched, but 'Strictly' is a real journey. I try to encourage my partner to stay in as long as they can, but above all to enjoy it.

Anton du Beke

Courage Art Age

I don't want to go and play a cliched Indian girl.

Anushka Sharma

Want T Play

I am a young girl, and I am open to dating, but at the risk of sounding cliched, I really don't have the time for it.

Bhumi Pednekar

Time Young You

For artists of my caliber, we're not played on the radio, so we don't really get a chance to get involved in that debate at all. We don't get a chance, because this weird kind of ageism exists in pop music. If you're past a certain age, you're not relevant. That's the kind of cliched term.

Boy George

Music Chance Art

From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

Cat Power

Love Yin Win

It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.

Cecily Strong

Weird Ways Way

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

Chris Lilley

Wit Tears Tear

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

Damon Lindelof

You Way Voice

Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?

David Duchovny

You Wit Who

My philosophy has always been that I hope I have a good enough day to give me another one, I hope that I have a good enough year to give me another year. I know that's cliched, but it's the truth in how I approach my career.

David Nail

Truth Hope Good

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are stories that depict us in a way that isn't cliched or niche, and that a white person, a Chinese person, an Indian person can watch and relate to. Those are the stories I want to be a part of telling.

David Oyelowo

Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'

David Walton

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

Diane Kruger

It sounds really cliched, but just be true to who you are.

Emily Ratajkowski

I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags.

Eric Close

The whole saas-bahu drama is very cliched. I feel there's already too much of that on TV. So I was waiting for something like 'Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi.' The show offered a fresh and interesting plot.

Erica Fernandes

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

Erika Slezak

My story wasn't one of those cliched stories of being an ugly duckling, I had a pretty good time at school. But then I think being six foot by the age of 15 meant that I couldn't help but be noticed, and that was when my physical being felt quite painful - I could not any longer walk into a room without being noticed.

Erin O'Connor

Sounds cliched, but I can't survive without my calendar.

Franchesca Ramsey

I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

Frank Grillo

In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.

Freida Pinto

So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

Gayle Forman

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.

George Michael

I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.

Imogen Poots

More than being a star, I want to be an actor. This may sound cliched but that is how it is.

Jaideep Ahlawat

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

Jake Halpern

What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.

Jenji Kohan

I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.

Jennifer Egan

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

Joel Madden

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

John Hawkes

I have a legion of friends and the best ones are my immediate family, which is very cliched but true.

John Nettles

I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.

Jojo Moyes

Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like it, people in charge would not have, sadly, enough impetus to do, as cliched as it sounds, the right thing.

Jonathan Coleman

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

Kate Bosworth

I tick that cliched box of being the class clown. I've always done impressions and characters, so I'm very lucky that I get to do that as a career now.

Kayvan Novak

I've become the quintessential L.A. person, to an embarrassingly cliched level. I'm like, 'Let's go for a hike and get a green juice.' That's a perfect Saturday to me. I hate being that cliche but, damn, it's also really nice.

Kelly Rohrbach

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

Kevin Costner

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

Kylie Minogue

As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.

Little Simz

If I have to choose between a Bollywood film and Pakistan film, it may sound cliched, but I will go with the script first. And if both the scripts are equally good, then I will choose a Pakistan film.

Mahira Khan