Top 45 Annoy Quotes

It used to annoy and frustrate me to have to come in and audition. I would say to my agents, ‘Haven’t they seen this film and this film and this film? They know what I look like… They must.’ Until I directed an episode of ‘Roswell.’ And all of a sudden, I realized why that was such an important thing.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Why do I want to annoy people? Because annoying people is funny.

I’m told I am over-choosy, and I shocked everybody by doing Jeffrey Archer. I did that to annoy everybody; sometimes, between Medea and Virginia Woolf, you can get punch-drunk.

From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I’m self-disciplined when it comes to my work. I usually look witheringly at them and snarl, ‘What do you think?’ I mean, how do you imagine anyone writes a quarter of a million words a year for publication?

At primary school, it was always me and this other girl, Lauren, who would fight over who was the fastest every year. I was quicker, but for some reason, she always got the glory leg in the relay team. That used to annoy me.

The only critics who annoy me are the ones who come to my shows even when they’re clearly not fans of my work.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

It does annoy me when I walk into a room and there are six men over the age of 40 with, let’s just say, a major gut problem, and they’re saying ‘hang on there Dervla, don’t eat your chocolate cake at dessert.’

People annoy me when they say, ‘Oh, you made a fortune.’

There’s nothing wrong with making the best of one’s declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we’re seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.

If I’m pushed, I’d also have to admit I don’t like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. ‘No thanks, I’m allergic.’ Why not just say ‘No thanks’? I wasn’t asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that’s all.

If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing.

I didn’t want to annoy anyone or be seen as a diva.

I think if people want to have surgery then fine, if it makes you feel better, brilliant. But it does annoy me when you’re being accused of it, and it’s not nice when people are commenting being like ‘Eughh, what has she done to her face?’ And I’m like ‘Oh my god, I’ve done nothing, this is actually my face.’

I got a lot of motivation from my character of people-watching. And if they do something that annoys me, I steal it and do it because I know it annoys other people. If it annoys me, it’s going to annoy you.

I got told I wasn’t allowed to go on loan, which was a good thing but, at the same time, I just wanted to play matches. So do I annoy the manager and try to push for a loan or was I just to keep working hard and trust him?

Hopefully I don’t annoy people too much.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Once you become more like Madison Avenue, you become acutely sensitive to what’s going to annoy your clients.

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It’s us looking at ourselves – and like all human endeavors it’s imperfect.

When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little voice. And then it changed, and I thought I wouldn’t be able to sing again, because I thought you had to sing like Christina Aguilera to be a singer.

Everyone kinda knows me as David and Victoria Beckham’s son, and it doesn’t, like, annoy me; I just kinda wanna make my own name for myself.

It doesn’t annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It’s a subtle distinction, but that’s how I view it.

Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it’s just to annoy you.

Facts and particulars annoy me.

My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force, and I’m in debt to him every time I invest inanimate objects with uncanny animism. But his female characters annoy me.

People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world.

There’s only one barometer for the commercial success of a film and that’s the box office. The obsession with box office doesn’t annoy me. It’s the main part of the business, if you get irritated with the main part then you’re in trouble.

It’s easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you’re going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you’re almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.

I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.

One of the secrets of having a long-term relationship is realizing that even if you think the other person’s great, at some point, they’re going to mess up and annoy you.

William Regal once told us he people-watched when he was in the ring. He would see things that people would do. And if they annoyed him, chances are they would annoy someone else. A lot of times I’ll just people watch when I’m traveling or at the airport or living everyday life.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

I’ve always been someone who needs someone with them to poke and annoy. I’m useless at being by myself.

When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn’t really know it.

It’s inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don’t just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed like such a lot of people so, yes I would have to say that it has done.

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I’m going to retire from rock n’ roll.

Rihanna has this thick tone, so it’s very hard to annoy anybody. It’s like a beautifully squeezed tube of toothpaste.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.