I understand when people think dressage is boring. But while your standard horse is like driving a Fiesta, our horses are like driving Formula One cars. I can’t breathe without the horse reacting. You are training another being to become really responsive and athletic and powerful.
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we’ve seen too many of her books on screen.
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.
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.
I don’t try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there’s no way I’m going to talk. There’s no reason to. And that’s why I’m such a boring interview, because I don’t go for the shock value, or smartass answers.
You’ve got to put interesting people around you; you’ve got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the songs you’ve written into a completely different direction, because there’s nothing more boring than going to the studio and predictably knowing what is going to happen.
I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
I think if you’re not offending somebody somewhere, then your show is probably just very bland and boring.
Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring.
I think as a species we’re not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future – if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they’ve been given a huge boring chunk of homework that’s too hard to do.
Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.
Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring.
I like being boring to a certain extent. I don’t have to be flashy. I get to put all of that into a show, and when it’s over, I don’t have to be that.
We have to take risks with art. If we don’t, it all becomes a bit boring.
If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people’s lives are better, you know it’s hard, and some people think it’s boring.
I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven’t done my job.
I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I’m not smarter than it, when I don’t know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it’s boring. Or it would be simple.
It’s a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don’t want to ever be that.
The real romantics are the boring ones – they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.
I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.
I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it’s good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don’t like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it’s a bit boring.
I’ve become really good at turning down the boring, pretty girl roles, the trophy wife, supermodel, beautiful girlfriend roles. I mean, playing somebody who’s perfect holds no allure for me, whatsoever. It’s just boring.
I don’t really do simple. I’m not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing’s ever simple, and nothing’s ever perfect. People certainly aren’t – I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn’t it?
It wasn’t really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don’t know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
When you’re young, everything’s boring, basically.
When you’ve written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it’s pretty boring.
In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.
Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.
If Adele’s seen as boring, then I’m happy to be boring as well.
Crime is a job and it’s boring. It’s also unpleasant.
But I have to grow out of it, because it’s very boring, really. Even when you’re telling people how crap you are, you’re still banging on about yourself.
What is interesting about me isn’t that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it’s boring. I am sorry, but it’s reducing who I really am, and it’s really boring.
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad.
I find weddings really boring. They give speeches, your aunt kisses you on the cheek, and you’re at a boring table. But it’s different when it’s your own.
If you make decisions based upon people’s reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really – it’s so boring.
I know for sure that nothing is guaranteed. Life always changes. I know for sure that I’m open to all possibilities always… let’s just say my life is never boring.
Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.
I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.
I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I’d wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn’t worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.
I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, ‘Oh! We’ll have something exactly like that.’ It’s very boring.
I don’t want easy success. It’s boring.
If you’re an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It’s boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.
They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.
You can’t plan everything – if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.
Fittings are boring, but it’s fun when you get to wear something new and go to a new event. I have a massive say in what I wear – I work really closely with my stylist.
I find politicians so desperately boring. I don’t trust them and don’t believe in them.
As I’ve said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.
I don’t feel bad or scared about getting older in terms of my looks or anything like that. I’m not afraid of my face changing. I enjoy seeing my face change. I think it’s really interesting. I wouldn’t want to have same face for my whole life. It would be boring to look at the same face in the mirror for 80 years.
I never thought I wanted to write about the ’50s, because I thought it was the most boring and bland decade to grow up in, and I never wanted to go back there.
Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature – not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.
I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.
Retail is my game. I spend every waking hour thinking about it. I started in the industry at the age of 18 after trying various other things that were mind-numbingly boring to me.
