Top 344 Bored Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Bored Quotes from famous people such as Steven Tyler, Rihanna, Kate Mara, Mike Colter, Christian Bale, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decid

The band’s never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.
Steven Tyler
I have two main hair people I work with. They’re always with me. I’m like, ‘I’m bored! I wanna change my hair!’ That’s the good thing about a weave. You can do whatever with it.
Rihanna
Eventually you get bored and you want to work.
Kate Mara
I’m a bit bored of going to the gym! I’m like, ‘Someone put me out of my misery – I can’t do this anymore!’
Mike Colter
And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.
Christian Bale
I’m not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there’s going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what’s going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.
Alan Ball
I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I’m repeating something I’m good at. So I’m always looking for new challenges.
Jewel
I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.
Ellen DeGeneres
Las Vegas has the type of audience – and they haven’t changed since my father’s days – they’re still boring and bored. And there’s only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.
Natalie Cole
Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it’s about not getting bored.
Renee Fleming
White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
Adam McKay
If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I’m not bored with my job. That’s been the entire principle. Got my wish.
Ira Glass
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Sanders
Don’t respond to haters’ taunts – even politely. Ignore them. If nobody takes their bait, most will grow bored and move on.
Andrew Shaffer
He’ll likely be remembered as a political figure, but I don’t recall Andrew Breitbart ever mentioning electoral politics. It bored him.
Tucker Carlson
The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you’re bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
Benjamin Bratt
When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.
Helena Bonham Carter
My mother wasn’t a very patient woman. If I complained about being lonely or bored, she’d tell me to go help someone, anyone. To this day, when I start feeling sorry for myself, I look for a good deed to do.
Donna Brazile
I like to warm them up with stand-up, get them into my world and tone, and then bring other characters on. There’s so much you can do theatrically on stage. You keep changing the direction and angles, and then people don’t get bored.
Noel Fielding
If you could drive straight down, into a tunnel bored through the crust of the planet, you’d hit this molten mess in about an hour. It’s called the asthenosphere – a sluggish sea, several hundred miles thick, on which floats the Earth’s cool epidermis – the so-called tectonic plates.
Seth Shostak
I like being a storyteller. I’m bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it’s about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.
Jill Sobule
As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.
Stephen Daldry
In some of the great cities of Europe – Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels – tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All these cities have sewer museums and tours, and all expose their underbelly willingly to the curious. But not London, arguably the home of the most splendid sewer network in Europe.
Rose George
The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.
Christopher Hitchens
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
W. Somerset Maugham
I was an accountant in Chicago, and a friend of mine, Ed Gallagher, was in advertising. At 4:30 every day I’d be bored, and I would call him. He’d interview me.
Bob Newhart
I wouldn’t feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy – I’d be bored to death.
Joaquin Phoenix
I get bored very quickly.
Tricky
If I stayed in Florida, I would have a house and a dog and a partner. And, honestly, I was so bored.
Tituss Burgess
I got bored of not feeling affectionate towards girls.
Rod Stewart
I have to think about the future because, not that I'm

I have to think about the future because, not that I’m bored with it now, but I can’t live now, it’s not my place to live now. I’ve got to live ahead of myself.
Ross Lovegrove
I like to watch Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, because I like them when they travel. I like Ina Garten, ‘The Barefoot Contessa.’ Giada is really nice, but I get a little bit bored with just staying in the kitchen.
Debi Mazar
I’m a bit done with weddings. There are so many and I’m so bored of them.
Joe Lycett
Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it’s very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron
Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.
George Sanders
I wouldn’t want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!
Kristin Scott Thomas
The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn’t have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.
Scott Caan
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
Bette Davis
I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn’t talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
Bernadette Devlin
I’m twitchy. I think I’ve got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very… well, I guess ‘bored’ is the word.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.
Peter Diamandis
I know from an editor’s point of view or a publisher’s point of view it’s easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I’d be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
Vikram Seth
Red is the great clarifier – bright and revealing. I can’t imagine becoming bored with red – it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.
Diana Vreeland
Basically, I’m a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, ‘really, what an ordinary person’.
Graham Norton
I’ve got a bit of a fear of being bored.
Carrie Hope Fletcher
Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.
Bruce Dickinson
I get bored with unintelligent scripts. When I read the first page and I can tell what is going to happen, I know I don’t want to make the film. It’s two months work and I would get deeply bored. I would even prefer to do something that didn’t work at the box-office, so long as it kept my interest alive.
Bruno Ganz
Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
Bill Gates
Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.
Bill O’Reilly
I just didn’t want to get bored playing a character, and that’s kind of the benefit of doing films; you’ve lived with a character for four or five months and that’s it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
If you don’t want to get bored with what you’re doing, you have to change.
Carine Roitfeld
I’m not good at sports, but I do exercise because we have to move. Besides walking my dog four times a day, I go to the gym and do 30 minutes on a stationary bike while reading a book because I get bored, then 10 minutes of weights and 10 of stretches.
Maye Musk
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard
I’m so much more gratified by my life now that I have an expertise. I wake up every day thinking about a fairly small set of scientific questions all related to the psychology of achievement, and I’ll never get bored of those questions. That’s something I couldn’t say to you when I was 22 or 25 or probably even 31.
Angela Duckworth
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.
John Scalzi
I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
Abraham Maslow
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there – and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
Zoe Saldana