Top 60 Fascinates Quotes

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because ‘What if?’ is the big thing.

Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there’s an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It’s the travel experience that has moved me the most.

I’m a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.

I can’t see America any other way than with a European’s eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It’s that conflict that fascinates me.

I think I would love to play a sportsperson myself. That is something I really want to do, since it fascinates me.

I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.

I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this country who help hold up the world.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such.

Every character I approach, from ‘Forrest Gump’ all the way up to ‘The Spoils Before Dying,’ has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.

I guess I’m just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

The messages that my work might contain, the verbal aspects, the use of words, certainly I never mean for it to be more than – shall we say? – fifty percent of the total, and sometimes my active interest is much less than that. It is the formal aspect of my painting which fascinates me most.

Of course I want to have a deliciously seductive story on the surface which will keep people engaged and amused, but primarily, I’m interested in other things. It’s the texture of any given moment that fascinates me: what is really going on between people or in somebody’s mind.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me.

The public’s appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

Boxing fascinates me.

I mean, in ‘Big’ and ‘Pleasantville,’ it’s a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn’t adequately grow up.

I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.

In boxing, Mike Tyson fascinates me. The attitude and confidence that he could not be beaten when he was heavyweight champion of the world was interesting. He came across as very mild-mannered, and much of what he said made sense.

I can’t think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.

Everyone asks me, ‘Why do you choose such subversive or shocking themes?’ but when I’m alone in my office, I’m not like, ‘OK I’m going to shock.’ I want to write about a character who fascinates me, someone who I don’t understand.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

How can I stop acting? I don’t think there is a full stop. Maybe the only time I will stop will be when acting stops fascinating me. I will have to find something that fascinates me more.

For me, when we’re all human beings, it’s just interesting that we cannot understand the other person or how they think. That’s one part of the human aspect that fascinates me.

Snooker still fascinates me and I still get a buzz from it.

The rules I sort of live by for my theater career, which I hope to live for my film career, is that if there’s something that intrigues me or fascinates me, or I don’t know how to do it, then I should do it.

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.

My only vice is ‘Keeping up With The Kardashians.’ I can’t really explain what it is that fascinates me so much, but it just sucks me in.

My grandmother’s first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.

Don’t pursue something because you ‘want to be great.’ Pursue something because it fascinates you, because the pursuit itself engages and compels you.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

I don’t know if people would be surprised by this or not, but I’m kind of into nutrition and weight lifting. I know I’m kind of a slender man, but the human physique fascinates me, and learning about metabolism.

Invented memory is a subject that fascinates me.

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

Twitter fascinates me because it’s real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren’t either, it’s a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world’s favorite music comes out of that relationship.

Significant consequences can begin very inconsequentially. That’s one thing that fascinates me. The other thing that fascinates me is how accident can undermine something that’s unfolding, something that might have played out differently otherwise.

We leave traces with our energy and vibrations. We leave something of ourselves behind everywhere were we pass. This is what always fascinates and inspires me.

Business fascinates me. It’s very creative.

It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.

There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn’t understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground.

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.

That’s what sort of fascinates me – what’s funny as well as what’s sad.

What fascinates me about London is its multi-ethnicity, the coexistence of cultures and religions, but I do not see myself living here for very long. It’s too big, too much stress, too much of a metropolis.

What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character.

The thing that I just discovered, which fascinates me really – my name, McCann, the translation isn’t ‘Son of Ann’… It comes from ‘Canis’ – as in ‘canine’ – as in ‘dog!’ My name – Rory McCann – means Rory Hound, Rory Wolfhound.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

It so fascinates me how we always laugh when somebody falls on a banana peel, how comedy and injury are often so interwoven. I’ve always been a sucker for that.

What fascinates me is that when we look at the history of women in politics, so frequently the women who get the farthest are the women who are quite conservative in their political views.

I believe that there is an important part of every human being that is defined in terms of their significant other: how we choose our partner, and how we behave when we are with them. And that is the part that interests me. How that part of the personality is forged doesn’t just interest me, it fascinates me.