I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp – what I hear in my head I don’t always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I’m not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.
The thing about ‘Harry Potter’ is it’s great fun because of the people – I was usually with Julie Walters and Mark Williams, Brendan Gleeson, Robbie Coltrane, and the kids. Wonderful, funny, amazing people. If you’re going to hang around on a set bored, you might as well do it with Julie Walters.
There were 10 or 15 years where all the Scandinavian movies were gray and light brown. I got really bored with it. I really felt that movies had to have that life of vivid colors.
If I’m extremely bored and I don’t have a book with me and I’m being an obnoxious teenager, I’ll read ‘BuzzFeed’ on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you’ll have an engineer for life.
I used to see a psychiatrist in New York but I got bored.
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
When I’m bored or tired of being blonde, I’ll throw on a wig. It’s a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 – all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered.
Football is something great, but it is like making love: if you do it every minute you get bored, so you have to take your time and do it now and again.
I’m usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.
The sense of anger I had when I was younger is something I thought would never go away. Over time, it’s something you get almost bored with.
Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I’d be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn’t like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.
I was really bored in school because I couldn’t do what I wanted to do, which was act. And then when I was 14, a local TV company came to the youth theater, and they were auditioning kids to be in this new TV series.
A lot of young poets today, from what I’ve heard and experienced, can’t get their heads past George W. Bush, and I’ve heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I’m kind of bored by it.
I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.
I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.
If I’m excited about it, I’m pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I’m bored with an idea, you can bet they’re going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I’m fairly excited about.
I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.
We’ve worked on hundreds of cars and there’s always something different so it’s hard to get bored of individual vehicles.
I definitely like a little bit of darkness, a little edge. I get a little bored when things are maybe too simple or too… expected.
I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.
I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, ‘You’ve got to go to this youth theater.’ I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories.
The great thing about pastry is there are so many avenues – it’s very hard to get bored doing this.
I box a lot, I spin and I surf. I try to mix it up. I obviously have to be in shape 24 hours and the gym can be super monotonous, so I just get outside and try to make it fun so my body doesn’t get bored.
Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement.
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn’t doing.
I guess I’m a Gemini through and through, but I’m mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.
I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can’t complain about being bored.
Yet there are some people – Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he’s a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I’m doing it right now and you all seem bored.
I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.
When I’m not creating something, I get bored; I despair.
I’m sometimes asked if I get bored with talking about ‘Kevin,’ and of course, the short answer is yes. Nevertheless, after a long slog in the literary trenches, I never take a single reader for granted and always remind myself that for new readers the unfolding story is fresh.
The only rule is never be bored.
In reality, I’m very restless, and I get bored very easily. It’s the same with my career: I need to outperform myself with every film.
As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don’t let myself get bored. I just go surfing.
The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.
I just like spending time doing stuff so I don’t get bored.
At school, if I was ever bored in class, I would draw maps of islands or detailed interior of boats or lists of provisions and equipment I would need when I went camping in the summer.
I think after a time there won’t be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We’ll embrace spirituality because we’ll be bored of everything else.
I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn’t fit me.
I don’t know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I’ve never been bored a day in my life.
I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.
The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.
You know how some people complain about the way carriage horses are treated? That they are in a small stall? That is mistreatment. In a holding cell, you get very bored. You have no newspapers, you have no anything.
I love challenges, and I get bored very easily, even on set.
By the time I went to Yale, I’d been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless – and a little bored – and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.
I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don’t want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.
If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That’s what keeps the creativity alive.
I’ve always been a keen waker-upper. I very quickly get bored just lying in bed.
I get invited to premieres, and I’ve been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, ‘Why am I doing free advertising for you?’
Whatever movies I sign, they have to get me out of my comfort zone. Otherwise, I would get bored very easily.
I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they’d get bored in a day.
When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don’t have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.
I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.
Variety works for me and the reason I’ve been able to maintain a certain level of fitness is because when I get bored I just admit I’m bored, then I switch it up.
I can’t be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can’t be bothered – it’s the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go ‘right, I’m going to the gym’. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it.
It’s hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I’ve never gotten bored with it. It’s difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I’ve got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.
