When I first got into graffiti I thought it was going to change the world. But when, 20-years-later, it still hadn’t, I got bored of the self-imposed rules.
I’m never bored.
My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.
I first picked up a camera when I was like 19 because I was unemployed and starting to get bored, and I was like ‘right, what can I do?’ And vlogging was just the thing that was on the rise, so I was like, ‘let’s give that a go,’ and luckily it turned out very well.
I regularly see leaders change what they say because they get bored of saying the same thing over and over again. It’s not that they vary a few words or change examples, but they change the message.
If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they’d be bored out of their mind.
There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever.
You get bored if you do the same thing too much.
I tell people on Facebook what my Playstation user name is. It’s quite a social thing. I put the headset on and I’m just yappin’ away. It’s kind of like a sad way of socialising. It’s like meeting up with people but when you get bored with them you can just switch them off and walk away.
When I look for the next project, it’s always about, ‘Is it going to push me out of my comfort zone? Am I doing something different? Am I working with people who are passionate about what they’re doing?’ At the end of the day, if I’m going to be bored on set, then I’m not gonna be happy.
My face always looks bored or depressed. It’s not an accurate impression.
And I’m not as young as I once was. At my age, I don’t have time to be bored.
To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who’s waiting to see the doctor. It’s not the kind of wait where you get bored.
Every few years, I change my look for the simple reason that I get bored. If you Google Image me, you will see so many different looks: long hair, short hair, clean shaven, beard, etc.
Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I’m never bored. I’ve never been bored.
I get super bored playing bland, normal girls.
Auditions are just torture. I’m trying to get better at it. It’s a very difficult thing to do. You go into a tiny room with a camera with somebody who is doing this with 100 other people, and they’re so bored, and then you have to be like, ‘Hey! I’m gonna show you what I got!’
We don’t know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we’d be bored, wouldn’t we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
I find that, for me, personally – and this is in everyday life – if I’m not growing, if I can’t be stimulated in a conversation, then I am bored. And I’m not good when I’m bored.
I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in Wales and was so bored there, I wrote a novel.
I’d been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.
I can’t imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.
In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
I like causing trouble. It’s the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff. Does that make sense?
I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.
Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school.
If I take pictures at a party, I never get bored.
After six successful Apollo flights, including two lunar landings, people were getting bored.
The subjects I wanted to write about – the mystery of the human soul, evil – didn’t interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me.
People say you can get bored of the sunshine in L.A. No, you can’t.
If you’re happy with what you’re doing, then you don’t get bored.
I don’t know why I started writing. I don’t know why anybody does it. Maybe they’re bored, or failures at something else.
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you’re writing, ask yourself what’s bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
I get bored very easily.
I think people are getting bored of parties, and hosts are terrified nobody’s going to show up. So they have to start entertaining them before the party even starts.
I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
When I’m bored, I hate being alone so there’s always a friend at my place.
I like to entertain in all aspects. When you’re with somebody and you’re out, you want to be entertained. I like to be around entertaining people. Even if they’re bored, and you’re in a convalescent home, there’s something entertaining about that, in a way.
I don’t have the time to be bored.
What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
We don’t hate the media, it’s just that when there’s too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don’t think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.
Racing’s been good to me, but I’m bored of it.
I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.
For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected.
After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.
You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I’d never let that happen. If it does, I’ll go and live on a desert island for a year.
I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.
I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries’ pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.
A while ago, I was starting to get bored with my routine, so I tried Spinning and fell in love with it instantly. I go to class three times a week, without fail. I always get there early so I can sit in the front of the studio, and I’m ready to go as soon as the instructor comes in.
How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.
I don’t get easily bored. I’m not that kind of person.
I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
I don’t think anyone gets bored of being called good-looking. We are all vain in one way or another.
I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don’t want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I’m not trying to denigrate anybody.
Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who’s supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested – sometimes it’s a little bit frustrating, you know?
I always feel like I’m so boring, but I don’t get bored with me.
Yeah, I like causing trouble. It’s the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.
Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won’t feel bored.
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.
