Boring Quotes

If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
Damian Lewis

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
Roald Dahl

Life, Book, Person

I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.
Jennifer Garner

Nice, Care, Everyone

I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.
Gene Simmons

Fun, Talking, Party

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.
Steve Lacy

Play, Same, Difficult

If it's boring, then it's tiring.
Jackie Cooper

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.
Paul Theroux

Waiting, Long, Sick

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.
Sargent Shriver

Travel, Rather, Purpose

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.
Charlie Kaufman

Trying, Become, Rather

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
Arthur Smith

Keep, Few, Believes

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.
Arthur Smith

Travel, Between, Fact

'I Am Number Four' definitely borrows from a whole bunch of genres and has a whole bunch of different themes throughout. And I think if it was just one stale two-dimensional thing then it would be kind of boring. And I think they did a fantastic job.
Callan McAuliffe

Job, Different, Whole

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.
Daniel Johns

Life, Good, Rock

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.
Emma Roberts

Life, Everything, Knew

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring.
Alicia Keys

Change, Otherwise

Life is too short to be a boring company.
Andrew Mason

Life, Short, Company

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
Mary Wesley

Nothing, Die, Short

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.
Franklin P. Jones

Time, Book, Realize

Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.
Michelle Pfeiffer

Beautiful, Around, Looking

'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.
Rob Sheffield

Life, Bored, Find

I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
Nathan Fillion

Time, God, History

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.
Tim Robbins

Nothing, Acting, Talk

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.
James Caan

Nothing, Acting, Talking

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
Carl Hiaasen

Greatest, Writer, Sin

I've always thought Prince Charming in 'Cinderella' was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.
Jude Law

Thought, Rather, Role

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.
Julie Walters

Art, Bit, Risks

Not being boring is quite a challenge.
Ian Mcewan

Challenge, Quite

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.
Mark de Mori

Life, Money, Sleep

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
Gioachino Rossini

Music, Good, Except

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.
Martin Gore

Music, Until, Works

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