Top 50 Interesting People Quotes

One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people – chaotic people – but very interesting people.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn’t scare me, but it’s a lonely place, even if you’ve got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn’t get home, if I couldn’t get back to what I consider my real life I’d be frightened.

The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.

The attraction to me was that Harvard was such a big community, with interesting things to do and interesting people, but you realise when you’re there that things are a lot narrower than you thought. It’s a little bit of a let-down.

My grandmother knew J.F.K. and L.B.J. That was her world. I enjoy meeting interesting people. But that’s not my world.

Being a sex symbol had its advantages. You got to meet a lot of interesting people, and men especially. It was a man’s world in those days, and I had a lot of luck with men.

Alf Wight was first and foremost a great storyteller. From all the interesting people Alf had spoken to from all over the country, particularly vets, Alf wrote their stories down.

Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.

I don’t set out to be connected. My business has allowed me to meet lots of interesting people, some of whom have become friends; but you can’t force it. This terrible word – ‘networking’ – I really hate.

I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Somerset is the first proper country county you come to in the West, which isn’t dependent on London and isn’t full of commuters. Somerset is full of the most fantastically interesting people.

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug ‘Vanity Fair.’ You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

I feel that I’ve worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I’m just curious about what I might have done if I’d had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.

I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story. You meet so many interesting people and have all kinds of experiences.

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker… but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

No one even has to leave their computer to find cool and interesting people to hang out with. Everyone is online in some form.

A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, ‘You’re one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met,’ and I was like, ‘Wow.’

There’s a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

I’m always looking out for interesting people.

My parents encouraged me to be creative by being creative and interesting people themselves, and by making it clear how highly they valued creativity in others.

People naturally want to see two interesting people – one that they’re predisposed possibly to like and one that they’re predisposed to dislike – have a fight and see who wins.

The good parts are the people who don’t make do. They’re the interesting people. Lear doesn’t make do.

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, ‘Why?’

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith… But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

To be honest with you, there’s nothing that bores me more than sitting around with a bunch of actors talking shop. I love actors and I’ve got friends that are actors. They’re interesting people. But for some reason, usually when it comes round to talking shop, there’s a part of me that doesn’t like it.

I just like to stay busy, and I like to work with interesting people.

I like what I do, and a lot of these projects have really interesting material and interesting people to work with. I feel lucky.

Politicians are interesting people and they have good and bad qualities.

I could always imagine more interesting places to be than where I was. And more interesting people than me being there. Eventually, this led to making up stories and writing things down.

It’s interesting. People go to an animal shelter and pick a dog that’s been kicked, beaten, and has lost a leg and an eye, and they’ll take that dog home and give it love and support, but they don’t do that with people.

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

I’ve met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent so much time with him. He taught me discipline, which I hadn’t been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he would kick off. Once, I was three minutes late, and he went absolutely berserk.

Let’s face it: ‘Threatening’ people are the only interesting people around. The unthreatening are, by and large, competent mediocrities who take lemming-like aim at careers in television.

When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy.

My mum was the most wonderful cook and our house was always full of delicious food and interesting people. I remember dad entertaining the likes of Des O’Connor and Bruce Forsyth. But what really shaped my childhood were the amazing Jamaican dishes that mum produced so effortlessly.

I’m not particularly a career-oriented guy. I’m lucky. I can make really interesting films much of the time with interesting people yet be anonymous, have a private life. But, I’d like to have the choice of the better roles.

I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it’s Noah Hawley forever, that’s also amazing.

With the long-format interview, I can get into really interesting conversations with my guests. You know what it’s like to get the opportunity to speak to really interesting people and pick their brain about things. To have time to let a guest actually speak and tell a story and get into detail is really exciting.

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

‘Fast & Furious’ is Hollywood’s ‘Dabangg.’ It is that big there, so it obviously feels amazing to have played a part in it. The role is small but very interesting. People will see me in full Hollywood accent, and the character is not like typical Indian character.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I’ve met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.

When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you’re bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You’re almost taught to realize it’s not for you.