Boring Quotes - Page 26

• I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.

  Oded Fehr

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

  Terry Gross

  Real, Life Is, Edited

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• The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Sin

  "He's all the rage" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2002.

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• I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?' I've never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I'll bother now.

  Celia Imrie

  Mother, Husband, House

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• In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

  Michael Imperioli

  Drama, America, Challenges

  "The king of New York". Interview With Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2001.

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• I'm really into football, gadgets, adventurous activities, and cooking new, creative recipes right now - but you'll never catch me being boring.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Football, Creative, Cooking

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• The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Guitar, Paris

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• Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.

  Rachel Johnson

  "Rachel Johnson: 'The "Boris's sister" thing pisses me off'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2012.

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• I feel incredibly lucky at this moment in my career to get paid to do basically exactly what I always wanted to do. I appreciate that in general. But you know, like any job, a job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.

  Nick Kroll

  Jobs, Careers, People

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 29, 2009.

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• I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.

  Patsy Kensit

  Book, Home, Boys

  "'I've had enough passion to last me a lifetime': Patsy Kensit on why she'll never marry again". Interview with Olivia Buxton, www.mirror.co.uk. April 21, 2012.

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• It can get a bit boring working on accents.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Accents, Bits

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Philosophy, Stories, Glory

  Song: Glory Days

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• Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

  Andy Kaufman

  Song, Real, Two

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

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• Fast Food Nation was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Yuppies, Fast Food Nation, Eating Fast Food

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• No one wants to see a boring tube sock.

  Rob Kardashian

  Want, Sock, Tubes

  "Rob Kardashian’s Sock Line, Arthur George, Debuts At Neiman Marcus, Hurts Our Eyes" by Jessica Misener, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2012.

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• You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

  Lorrie Moore

  Feels, Persons, Knows

  "Moore's better blues". www.cnn.com.

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• I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

  Mandy Moore

  Up Early, Bed, Kind

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• There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Character, Actors, Chandeliers

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• And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

  Norman MacCaig

  Eye, Thinking, Names

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• I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

  Jo Nesbo

  Character, Interesting, Matter

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• Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

  Christopher Lambert

  Character, Acting, Stills

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.

  Thomas Peterffy

  Basketball, Baseball, Talking

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• It's nice not to be too boring.

  Barry Pepper

  Nice

  "Barry Pepper Exclusive Interview True Grit; Plus an Update on Terrence Malick’s Next Movie". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 05, 2011.

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• As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.

  Hunter Parrish

  Predictable

  "Exclusive: Hunter Parrish Talks Weeds Season 7". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 27, 2011.

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• My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

  Hunter Parrish

  Mom, Dad, Kansas

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

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