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I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.
I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn’t seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history.
We’re all fascinated by the way other people live their lives, how they cope with hardship and triumph, what they put in their home movies and family albums.
I would love to direct a western. I love taking photographs and I’m always fascinated with angles. Also, my father was a film editor, and I have a talent for thinking of things that aren’t always in a script.
I’m just fascinated by visiting actual castles in the countryside.
Technology, you know. I’m pretty horrible. I use it, but mostly I like to view it from afar. But I’m still fascinated by it.
I’m fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman’s hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called ‘Tinderbox City;’ there were always fires, people getting killed.
I’m a Jew. I’m fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I’d just be a vacuum.
My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don’t know how I would have lived without animals around me. I’m fascinated by them – both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it’s made such a difference in my lifetime.
I’m fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth.
What’s fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
We want to live in the black and white, but we don’t. The world is gray. And, I’m always fascinated by people who are clearly, ‘This is black and this is white, and that’s the way life is.’ Life always has something to say about that.
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
I’ve always been fascinated by horror.
We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren’t careful.
I’m just totally fascinated by people.
I don’t know why we choose to reach out to help another person, or why we decide that we can’t, and withdraw and try to care only for ourselves, but I’m fascinated by that choice.
That period of history has always fascinated me – Greek history, Greek mythology.
People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.
While Jane Fonda has no shortage of knowledge to share, I was particularly moved and fascinated by her recovery from bulimia, which she battled with for over 25 years.
I have always been surrounded by women with strong personality and feminine: my mother, my sister, my aunts, my friends. I am fascinated by the look they can have – simple details such as a step, a way of speaking, a gesture, a way of wearing a garment.
Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.
The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
I’m fascinated by real-time behavior.
India brings out so many different feelings in me. I’ve been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember – ever since the ’60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
I’m really fascinated by other directors’ methods. I’ve done a lot of learning by observation.
I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it’s football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There’s not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.
I am fascinated by storytelling glue. Anytime I see someone who’s good at it, I stop and wonder, ‘How’d they ‘do this? Why can’t I tear myself away?
I think the kind of person that gravitates toward New York is a person that’s not so much focused on controlling exactly how they appear and how they exit. They’re more fascinated with the process.
I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.
I’ve always been fascinated by India and its color and vibrancy. I worked in Madhya Pradesh in the Kanha National Game reserve before university, and it is probably the most intoxicating country I have ever visited.
I saw the older kids entering the rink carrying hockey sticks and bags, and I was fascinated by the equipment. Once I started skating faster, I was attracted to the speed and dynamics of hockey. I never looked back!
Something about exploration has fascinated me from a young age.
Pirates have always fascinated me.
One of my favorite books is ‘The Swiss Family Robinson.’ The reason is, I’m fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do?
I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots – about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs.
I’ve always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I’ve wanted to watch and wanted to make.
I love watching programs about Discovery Channel and just reading New Scientist, and all that kind of stuff. Im just fascinated by it.
I’m tired of Italian gangsters. Not that I don’t watch ‘The Godfather’ every morning when I get up and ‘Goodfellas’ when I go to sleep at night. But I’ve just always been fascinated by Russia as a country, by the Russian personality. And now Russia is literally a gangster nation.
I’ve always been fascinated with radio and broadcasting. I did fake radio shows as a kid, where I was a DJ and stuff like that.
You can always keep learning with acting, because the school is life and yourself and your friends and your relationships. I’m fascinated by it! It’s infinito!
I think I’m fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it’s impossible to ignore.
I’m guilty of being fascinated by gadgets and toys and technology, but any penny that I spend, I try to make it be a part of what I do for a living. Because then you are forwarding. You are forwarding that art, forwarding that career ahead.
When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I’d watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being.
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ‘Napoleon’s will to power,’ and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn’t think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.
I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes and all these things. I was fascinated.
I was in college for organizational communication and politics because I was just fascinated by influence. I wondered how people have influence, not because I wanted to inspire the world – yet.
Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I’m absolutely fascinated by it.
Tennis always fascinated me, because it made every demand: technology, tactics, physique, endurance. The competition of one against one has a very special charm.
When I was younger, I would look at a game with computers and still be fascinated by the possibilities.
I’ve always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
I am fascinated with times past.
The trial of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has kept me fascinated and shocked in equal measure. But like many women, I was relieved this week when he was found guilty of culpable homicide after killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
I talk to children in schools all over the world, and I’ve found that both boys and girls are fascinated by how hunter-gatherers manage to survive entirely on what’s around them in their environment: trees, rocks, animals and plants.
People are fascinated with the fast life, the easy life. For some reason, that’s an American dream, and it goes all the way back to the Edward G. Robinsons and the Cagneys.
As I get older, I’m sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves – one that was really, in a lot of ways, fundamentally at odds with who they really were as a person.
I guess if I had to pick one interest that is unique, it would be giant squids – I’m disturbingly fascinated by them and even wrote a story about the hunt for them.
When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When our minds are sick, people tend to shy away from you, be afraid, or call you outright crazy. I’m fascinated by the way society and individuals view mental illness, and most of my shorts comment on that.
I loved ‘Homeland’ – it’s such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.
I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of creating music using only vocals.
I’m fascinated by Greta Garbo. My cat’s named Greta, and I have a framed photograph of her from 1949.
Young people are fascinated with the idea of love, maybe because they haven’t experienced it. The older you get, the more jaded you become with this, like, mystical love thing. It’s not as exciting because it’s not unknown.
I’m fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.
Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I’ve always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.
I’m interested in nutrition and fascinated by the changes you can make to your body through diet and exercise.
I’m just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.
When I was a kid, I loved action, war, horror, monster movies… Anything with special effects. I was fascinated with how’d they do that.
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
‘Poltergeist’ was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.
I’m more fascinated by anti-heroes, and Gambit is one of those.
I’m not a computer guy. I’m like an anthropologist. I’m fascinated with people’s obsessions. I’ve learned to wear them.
I was always fascinated by clothes, and I think I’ve had clothing in my blood for as long as I can remember.
For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.
I’ve been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
And Michael likes to read a lot. People don’t realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he’s fascinated just about every subject.
The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I’ve never seen any of my characters as baddies.
I’m really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it’s from another planet.
I’m a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.
I was completely fascinated by the studio process and layering sounds and creating soundscapes out of layering massive squalls of sound.
I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl in those post-war years when things were really pretty grim. It wasn’t like that in America, which was real boom time.
I’m fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment.
World War II really fascinated me because it’s the only time that everybody in this country sat down at the same table, because eating on rations was your patriotic duty.
For me, I’ve always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it’s like to be a nun. And I’ve always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I’ve been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, ‘I Wanna Be a Nun,’ when I was 25.
I grew up with park jams. That’s how I knew about rap… The local MCs would grab the mic and start rapping. I just used to be so in awe and fascinated and like, ‘Wow, this is amazing!’ But I would never, ever touch the mic. Heck no.
I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I’m taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban ‘beat’ poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.
I’m fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There’s something about that period that’s epic and tragic.
Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
‘Poltergeist’ was the film that scarred me for life. I saw it at such a young age – 5 or 6 years old – and it has one of the creepiest doll sequences with the clown, and ever since then, I’ve just been fascinated by dolls.
I would love to learn how to paint motorcycles and stuff like that. I really, really am fascinated by that.
The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering conventions. The old ways of painting, writing, sculpting, and composing no longer seemed adequate to capture the world.
I think every little girl is fascinated with mermaids.
As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I’m fascinated by their logic and illogic.
As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.
I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.
I’ve always been fascinated by chefs and the worlds of chefs – what they do is incredibly cinematic.
My favorite place is whichever sidewalk is beneath my feet because I am just constantly fascinated by walking and looking and learning. If I’ve already walked a street five times, then the next five times I walk it looking up, and I learn something about the cornices.
I got fascinated with all of this work in terms of spirituality, philosophy, behavioral science when I was around 18 years old. I’ve been doing this for 14 years, and I’ve been doing it online for three years.
I don’t think you ever really get used to it, do you? There’s always another little level of shock in it and of being starstruck at the people you meet. And that’s the beauty of it: you’re always fascinated, because it’s not a normal thing to do, is it, this acting game?
I’ve always loved listening to music on my own, but there’s another side of me that is just fascinated by… like Goa trance, for example – just a rave on a beach in India, you know? Where there’s someone that’s spinning the music, and it’s just this free-flowing, continuous energy.
My mother’s English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.
I’ve always been very fascinated by technology – the Internet, social media.
When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through high school, so I was very fascinated with acting as a means of expression.
I am fascinated with singers. I find them cooler than actors.
I’ve become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.
Perhaps one reason we are fascinated by cats is because such a small animal can contain so much independence, dignity, and freedom of spirit. Unlike the dog, the cat’s personality is never bet on a human’s. He demands acceptance on his own terms.
In the ’50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay – it didn’t feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.
Just in the past few years – since I’ve been making movies, which isn’t a very long time – you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren’t even.
When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.
I was always the person in our class who was fascinated by new plays. I would go to the library all the time as new plays would come out.
I’m fascinated by the idea that a human connection can be triggered through inanimate devices.
I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I’m fascinated by the truth – all the different versions of it.
I’m fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
These people are fascinated by me, but I haven’t done anything.
Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie ‘Brother Sun, Sister Moon’… I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.
There’s something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time.
When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
I was fascinated by the shape of words even before I knew what they meant.
I try to approach the film medium as a novelist and the novel medium as a filmmaker on some level. It’s that question: Do we think in pictures, or do we think in language? And the novelist believes one thing, and the filmmaker believes another thing – and I’m fascinated by that balance.
The invisible and unseen has always fascinated us humans.
I think that people are fascinated with the stories, with human nature and the dark turns it can take.
I guess you could say I’m a closeted animal person, because a lot of my life I did it in secrecy. I was always fascinated with exotic animals, particularly reptiles, from the age of 6 when I got a pet tortoise.
Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.
‘Belle de Jour’ is a film I loved and watched almost continuously because the style fascinated me.
I’ve been a fascinated observer of grand public funerals since I was a kid, starting with the life-altering black-and-white images of President John F. Kennedy’s funeral.
I’m fascinated by the way early experiences haunt and revisit you, remain present in your life for decades and decades – they can even shape who you ultimately become.
I’m fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made – and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
Mollie Hunter was both a great friend and a very fine writer for children. She was fascinated by Scotland’s history and its folklore – almost all her novels reflect her tremendous knowledge of both.
I would say I’m more fascinated by Big Daddy V than I am necessarily a huge fan of Big Daddy V. He simply threw on the double-strapped unitard… and now he’s some sort of fearsome, fighting, wrecking machine.
Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school – this was in the 1960s.
My artistic decision to cast my mother’s objects into bronze moves beyond the notions of memorializing her. I’ve been fascinated for some time with the idea of monumentality and what it means to memorialize. Both of these notions are relevant historically, artistically, and culturally.
At a young age, when I was fascinated with China, I read ‘The Travels of Marco Polo’ and learned about this exciting, dramatic world he captured and reported on. He’s so little known, but yet this mythology has survived that’s so misrepresentative of his story.
I was fascinated with optical illusions.
I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It’s the difference between playwrights and novelists.
I am so fascinated and taken by the Golden Knights.
I know that in spite of my varied career accomplishments, the one that will always excite and intrigue is the KKK investigation. It has defined me in ways unimaginable and has always fascinated those who hear its tale.
History has always fascinated me. Coming from a family that has it’s own regal history, I always like places that have a rich past.
My father knew classical music very well. Driving in the car, listening to the radio, he could name every composer, every movement, what piece it was. I was fascinated by the way he recognized who wrote what.
I’ve always been fascinated by weather.
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.
I just love biography, and I’m fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.
I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.
I’d always been fascinated by people who allow themselves to be so rude and irritated and foul-mouthed and hostile, but usually you can sense there’s something vulnerable beneath them – a shield they use to protect that vulnerable side. Finally, when they expose that soft spot, it’s kind of touching.
My dad’s a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian’s Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30-ft-high stone wall to keep it out.
People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.
I was always really interested in startups and fascinated by what they were working on.
It’s funny – Americans are the colonials who ran away from the royals, and yet we’re fascinated by them.
Venice has always fascinated me. Every country in Europe then was run by kings and the Vatican except Venice, which was basically run by councils. I’ve always wondered why.
I’m from New Orleans. There’s a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
While I circled around and around in my brown rental skates, I studied a group of skaters spinning in the center. I was fascinated! When my mom picked me up, I began a campaign for skating lessons.
People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end – whether we’ve had direct experience or not – there’s part of you that knows there’s absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.
At the age of 16, my father’s father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
Bruce Dern was fascinating. He’s an amazing character. If you put him in a room at a table, you will sit there for the next five days and listen to everything he has to say and be fascinated by it. He’s great.
Ever since I was a little kid, the only thing that fascinated me, excited me, and engaged me was Hindi films. I didn’t know anything beyond Hindi films. I was a ‘filmi bachcha.’
I’m so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.
I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.
I’m fascinated by the notion of a perpetual sound: a sound that won’t dissipate over time. Essentially, the opposite of a piano, because the notes never fade. I suppose, in literary terms, it would be like a metaphor for eternity.
My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.
I’m not really a political animal but I am rather fascinated by the meltdown of England and America. In the end, it seems as if America might come out of it, but I’m not sure if England is ever going to recover.
I’ve always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.
I grew up loving watching movies, and at a certain point, I started to become fascinated with making movies. Then I went to film school, and I got to dabble with different aspects of moviemaking, and I ended up settling heavily into editing – editing was what I was really adept at, had a passion for.
I have been fascinated by Rani Padmavati from my childhood.
Ferran Adria making hamburgers… some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I’m fascinated by all aspects of food.
I’ve always been fascinated with Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, having lived in London in the ’80s when there was an Irish republican bombing campaign there.
I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America, so, granted, it is part of our heritage, and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.
I am fascinated by Omega’s history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
People are fascinated by evil because it’s mysterious and it doesn’t seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.
I love cops; I’m fascinated by the criminal justice system.
The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith’s ‘What It Was, Was Football.’ I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn’t know what any of it meant.
I’m so fascinated by how people destroy each other and love each other.
Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it’s instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.
That’s one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.
I think we’re all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.
Music was more than just something I enjoyed listening to. I was fascinated by it. I’d watch some of my favourite artists and emulate everything they did.
I’ve always been fascinated by history.
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person’s skin from his own?
I was always fascinated by how things work and learning about them.
I wanted to be my own boss. I was fascinated by airlines and how I could change travel for the average person. Then I wanted to diversify.
I used to fight in school. I was a rough, athletic child. I always knew I could fight and, watching UFC, I was always fascinated by it.
One of my favorite things about being the host of ‘The School of Greatness’ is that I get to learn from the best minds in the world about stuff I am fascinated by.
I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.
It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two.
I’m fascinated by political enthusiasm.
The idea of the mask in any scenario has always fascinated me. Not only does it protect identity, it also allows one to hide.
Games have fascinated me my whole life, starting with ‘PacMan’ on my uncle’s PC. I moved up to classic Super Nintendo and then on to N64, and then XBox, DS and ‘WoW.’
I’m fascinated by human agency – by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass.
I became fascinated by the then-blossoming science of molecular biology when, in my senior year, I happened to read the papers by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod on the operon theory.
When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make corrections to them for $20 per script and was fascinated by films.
I guess I’m fascinated with motion because I find that whenever anything is moving, I have some feeling about it. It doesn’t matter what kind of motion it is. A motion will always evoke some kind of reaction.
I love flying and kind of just fascinated with it, and to fly something like an F-22 would be a blast.
Now most of ‘Alice’ isn’t really a political social commentary, but I think a big message is here is that the culture we’re involved in is fascinated with very quick fixes and instant gratification.
‘Not A Love Story’ is inspired by true events, but it is not based on those events completely. When I first read about the Maria Susairaj case, I was fascinated with the psychological aspects, that two seemingly very ordinary people can go completely berserk.
I’ve always been fascinated by twins. In my forty years of photographing, whenever there was an opportunity, I would take a picture of twins. I found the notion that two people could appear to look exactly alike very compelling.
I’m fascinated by Jesus and pray to him every day.
Even though I played national level badminton, I told my parents when I was in 10th that I was not interested in continuing. Being a model or actor fascinated me from a young age, and I even did a couple of ads when I was just eight years old.
I have always been fascinated by Kollywood because of the interesting scripts and genres that they come up with.
I’ve always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.
That fascinated me. I used to watch all these operations on TV and thought it would be really cool to do that.
I’m really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I’ve always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.
I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I’ve always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it’s been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.
Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
I’m fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there’s a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.
Tiger Woods is someone I’d like to ask questions of. I’m fascinated to know about his life – everything he goes through, is he happy being Tiger Woods?
You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That’s what I did.
People will be fascinated. We will think of each other in a far more homogeneous way, because we will know that there is something that is different from us. And when we say ‘us,’ it will mean as a species.
Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The great achievements of Mesopotamian civilisation were pressed into the service of the Ba’athist regime.
I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.
I’ve got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I’m really fascinated by that.
I’m always wondering, if Bigfoot’s not real, then why does this creature show up in all these different cultures? I’m always fascinated by that kind of stuff.
I was fascinated by the fact that in Osaka, we saw people using their cell phones to pay for small goods.
I’ve always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.
We’re all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.
Zoos have always fascinated me. What child hasn’t wondered what would happen if all the animals escaped from the zoo? Or what would happen if they got caught in an enclosure?
When I was in Class Four, I wanted to be an astronaut. I am still fascinated with the universe. I decided I wanted to be an actor when I was in Class Eight.
I’m fascinated by Buddhism. I adore Buddhism, and I read about it all the time, but I haven’t formally become a Buddhist, although I don’t really know why I haven’t. I guess I feel I don’t need to.
There’s something called toxic stress, which is repeated exposure to trauma. I was fascinated by how it affects the brain and the development of a person.
In the same way he’s fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.
We’re fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.
The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, ‘This isn’t the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.’ When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can’t seem to stop ourselves.
Who isn’t fascinated by evil?
Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.
I’m fascinated by the whole clown phobia thing because I personally don’t have it.
I had a fascination with the back side of the business, and the creative process always fascinated me. Vince gave me an opportunity in ’98 to sit in the production meetings. He would talk creative with me, and we had this creative rapport.
I’ve always been fascinated with storytelling.
I’ve always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone’s problems.
When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated.
The Dome is a metaphor that could mean anything – it could be nuclear fallout, terrorists – I’ve always been fascinated with stories where people’s roles are flipped on their heads, be it the Wall Street guy, the techno guy, etc. All of those things are only successful when there are people and money around.
I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father’s respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.
I’m fascinated with worlds where there’s a small population left, whether it’s a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me – ‘Falling Skies’ or ‘The Walking Dead’ – they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for ’em.
I’m endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don’t.
Politics always fascinated me. In my 20s, I was involved in politics and, as I look in the mirror, not for the noblest of purposes. It was for sport.
I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.
I won’t say I’m not fascinated by the way advertising works. I like the sleekness. But a picture in advertising doesn’t last too long. They have to work for 30 seconds. And I’d like to reach at least two minutes. This is my goal: to break that two-minute record.
You see young people, or kids, and they’re fascinated by the way people talk. And that’s great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, ‘You know what? I don’t care how you talk, I’m just listening to what you’re saying.’
Ever since I’ve been young I’ve been fascinated by the human body. I’ve written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much – paranoid and a hypochondriac.
I’ve always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.
I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!
My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father’s musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn’t sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.
I’m fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.
Indian mythology and its characters have always fascinated me and I find the antagonists especially very interesting.
I’ve always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It’s the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.
I just am fascinated by other female artists, probably because I feel a kinship with them, no matter who they are and what they do.
Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers’ airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.
For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.
I’ve always been a Civil War buff. In fact, the ships that always fascinated me the most were the ironclads, because they were the start of an era.
I’ve always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.
I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster.
As someone who was basically a software engineer for many years, I became fascinated with how the brain functions and is put together and works in such a different fashion than computers do.
I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok.
When I began to study baby delivery, when I was about to have a baby, I became very into it and fascinated and what our body does and how a mother’s body temperature will rise the minute that the baby touches her chest because she needs to get warmer.
From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I’ve always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.
America has always fascinated me; it’s a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook.
It’s always been the genres that fascinated me. I think great action movies and great thrillers are transformative.
When I was in graduate school, I became very interested in why some kids took on challenges and were able to bounce back from setbacks whereas others shy away from difficulty and really crumble when they hit failures. I became fascinated with people who had that kind of courage to take on challenges.
I’ve always been a huge fan of thrillers like David Fincher’s ‘Se7en.’ I am fascinated by the disturbing, dark underbelly of life. I find such films deeply engrossing. They delve deep into the human psyche, and that’s a place worth exploring.
I’m fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we’re not quite seeing.
I’m fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.
I’m fascinated by artificial intelligence.
I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.
A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies – they’re movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie ‘Marooned’ over and over when I was a kid.
This is what I do. I look at brains. I’m fascinated by it. I can spend hours doing it. In fact, if I want to relax, that’s one way I can relax.
What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.
When I came to ‘Gourmet,’ I had no clue how to run a magazine; for television, I am fascinated to learn about editing.
Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on ‘Kids Incorporated,’ ‘cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that – maybe that’s why I’m fascinated by guns.
I’m always fascinated by the dedicated monitors in a hospital. Non-standard cables, funny button shapes, odd LED colors, and lots of extra controls.
My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books – I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases.
I’d always been fascinated by archaeology; it was my original career plan as a kid.
I’ve always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.
I had been fascinated with Islam since college – particularly how it could inspire such fervor in our modern age and move a significant number of its followers to horrific acts of violence. That invisible hand moved me to study more and more about Islam.
I’ve always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.
I’ve been fascinated with severe weather since I was four, when I saw a tornado at night in my mom and grandmother’s southeast Minnesota hometown while everyone else was asleep – an experience I encoded in ‘The Stormchasers.’
I love being on film sets even if I’m not acting in the film, and I’m fascinated by the work of the director of photography.
I’ve always liked the Krampus character, and I’ve always been fascinated with him, especially the tradition that he was such a part of the holiday season in Europe, in Germany, Austria, northern Italy, various other places.
You ask why I’m fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.
My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It’s the new ones that I haven’t identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body – at least by mine.
I loved movies. In particular, I loved movies depicting places and events that obviously you couldn’t have gone out and shot. It was obvious you were looking at something that had been manufactured in some way. I was fascinated by that.
I’m fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past.
I’m fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.
I’m fascinated by historical fashion, and I like to live in the past slightly. If I could walk around all day dressed in a crinoline, I would.
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
Why my interest in writers? Well, I’m one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it’s like to write. I’m interested in the creative process. I’m fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.
I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.
When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that’s what really turned me onto space and science fiction, and I started watching things like ‘Lost In Space,’ and that led me to ‘Star Trek,’ which was a major influence on my life.
I’m fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they’ve lived for so long.
I’m fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I’m sort of interested in the gory details of life.
I’m interested in the relationships of people. I’m interested in the darker moments within us. All those aspects of human behavior, I’m fascinated by. But in the times we’re in, those are hard movies to make. So if I can do it at HBO, fine.
I’ve been fascinated with Stevie Nicks for a long, long time. I’ve written ‘Stevie Nicks’ inside everything I’ve made for the past 20 years.
I think I am fascinated with slightly tragic characters.
You’re always fascinated by what you do, and how other people look at it.
Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.
You’d expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use language to convey real-world information, we’d be obsessed with knowing the way things are, and we would entirely reject stories that aren’t true. They’re useless. But that’s not the way we work.
I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.
I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.
Film is new for me so I’m so fascinated by it and love it, but I would pass out if I could never do theater again. I’d be physically ill!
I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
I will forever be fascinated by how people deal with adversity, how people react in moments of crisis, or how people behave when life gets uncomfortable.
I’m fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.
I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
I’m fascinated by the concept of what I call ‘clusters of creativity’: the Brontes, the Waughs, families with several geniuses. I’m one of four; competition among siblings has to be a factor.
I’ve always been fascinated by Eisenstein.
I’ve always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type, clocks, and built the largest ships in the history of the world.
I’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
I haven’t become a satanist, but I am fascinated by the character of the devil.
There was another Judy Garland movie on TV, and it wasn’t ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ and I was so confused. I was like, ‘Wait a second, what is Dorothy doing in this movie?’ And that’s when I became fascinated. I didn’t realize there were actors.
I’m fascinated by food. Food is love, isn’t it?
Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936.
I’m fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.
I have always been fascinated by Indian history and architecture.
I’ve always been fascinated by the body and the mind.
I’ve always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.
What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend, and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the – the notion of chivalry.
I am really interested in eccentric minds. It’s rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It’s really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.
When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.
I’m really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.
I am fascinated by English football.
First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I’m endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why… and how they feel about it. Which means I’m interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It’s my kind of storytelling.
My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I’d use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens.
The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.
Rich people are so eccentric, and I don’t think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers, and there was no income tax. They are some of the most fascinating people, and I am endlessly fascinated.
I have always been fascinated by entrepreneurship.
I’ve always been fascinated with the ’60s in general.
I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.
What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the ‘Mortal Engines’ series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.
One of the things that I’m fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.
I didn’t choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.
I am always fascinated by India.
I was fascinated by movies from age 12.
I’ve always been fascinated by what you can learn from looking into your DNA.
Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I’d be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.
I am fascinated by Shah Rukh Khan. He is brilliant.
The process of communication with the afterlife – more of an exchange than a conversation – has always fascinated me.
I developed ‘Trapped’ because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
But I’ve always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she’s just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.
I love the Grub Street Diet. I am particularly fascinated by what people eat; I think it says a lot about people.
I’m fascinated by adult women who don’t have close friends and how that could come to be. I think when you’re a kid, the relationships are so intimate, and you’re so connected to your girls, so what becomes of them? What could possibly happen to have you become an adult woman and no longer have that?
I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also, I was, and remain, fascinated by the idea of an audience as a community of people who gather willingly to bear witness.
When I was nine years old and dreamed of being a pro wrestler, the thing I was most fascinated by was how much love the wrestlers got.
There’s so much I’m interested in that I didn’t discover in high school. For ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’, because Gwen is a scientist, we went to a lab in San Diego, and we were learning about biology. And I’m fascinated! Because I never went to biology class in high school.
Almost every script that I’ve gotten has been for sort of the generic Hollywood type. I haven’t chosen them. All the ones I have chosen are because I’ve been fascinated with the source material or because of the script.
I always used to deny this, but I guess what I’m really saying is that I was writing to shock… And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
I’m so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it’s just a very real thing in our country and culture.
I’ve really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since ‘Wild Wild West,’ and it’s always been a genre and an era that’s fascinated me. But so often it’s set in England, and that doesn’t really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I’m a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
I’m fascinated by religion, but I’m not particularly religious.
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.
I learned French in Tunis, along with Arabic. I also learned French history. I knew the entire history of the kings of France. And I was fascinated by Versailles.
Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We’re fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn’t going to die down.
I’ve studied psychology. I’m fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.
I want to play Lena Horne because I’ve always been fascinated with her. Her talent was astounding and more than that, her life story is incredible.
Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.
I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It’s really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
I’m fascinated with being able to travel the world via ‘Instagram’ and just be somewhere different.
At BYU, I discovered history, then historiography. I became fascinated with the study of historians and historical trends, with the idea that the way we remember the past changes and shifts with our own preoccupations.
My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school – I was an unpopular, bookish kid who had an indeterminate ethnic background. I became fascinated with women sopranos because they had a future that I didn’t as a singer.
For me, I’ve always been fascinated by tales of the Chinese railroad and the workers and the conditions of the workers who built the railroad.
I recall being fascinated by numbers even at age three and viewed their manipulation as a kind of game.
That’s part of what always fascinated me about the Flash. Yes, he had superpowers, but he wasn’t superhuman. He was vulnerable. He could be hurt or killed. He’s not getting in a jet. He actually is the jet. So he had this gift, but with it came this risk. And I think that’s what makes the character relatable.
When I first arrived in Houston, I was fascinated with the elaborate styles of cowboy boots and thought they were incredibly exotic. They also seemed to be a central part of a specifically ‘Texan’ identity, one distinct from being ‘American.’
I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.
I was named Margaret Yvonne. ‘Margaret’ because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.
I’ve always been fascinated by the picaresque.
I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.
I’m still really fascinated with characters and people and telling their stories.
I’ve always been fascinated by dreams – mine are so vivid. I went through a period in my 20s when I wrote down my dreams every morning. Then life intervened, and I stopped doing it.
I’m fascinated by male vulnerability.
An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be – and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.
I’ve always been fascinated by Oscar Wilde.
I like playing off strong actors, whether it’s Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I’m a hopeless romantic, so I’m fascinated by relationships.
There’s so many different people that I’m fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I’m like, ‘I don’t know how you exist. Like, you’re so fascinating.’
When I was seven, my mom took my twin sister and me to a play. I remember being fascinated about life onstage.
I’m so into music that I just stop and listen, whenever there’s music on. That’s the problem with being a musician for so long. I can get lost in the bassline, fascinated with the arrangement, curious about the production. I can’t shut it out.
Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago.
Although I completed two years of internship in various small hospitals, I decided against continuing my medical training. I was much more fascinated by the unsolved problems of medicine than by practicing it.
I worked two days in Texas and two days in Hollywood on ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ and that was it. I had no idea how it was going to turn out. And when I saw it, I was so upset, or fascinated, or something, by the sight of myself on the screen that I could hardly pay attention to the rest of the movie.
I’ve been fascinated by mysteries for as long as I can remember. Real, fictional, solved, unsolved, I don’t care; they all fascinate me. I think that’s a core human trait.
I want to fly a jet. I’d love to just be in the air and go mach 3 or mach 4. Or, I’d be an underwater salvager. I’ve always been fascinated with the Bermuda Triangle and Atlantis. I love chemistry, also. That’s why acting is so random for me!
I grew up with my grandfather, so I knew him really, really well. He was funny and opinionated and wonderful. He was fascinated by things and always curious.
I always wanted to be a zoologist. I’m fascinated with animals. I wanted to be a zookeeper.
I’ve always been intrigued and fascinated by Gaga. She is a chameleon; she has the capability to fully express her individuality and her eclectic personality by simply being herself.
I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We’re all fascinated by family dynamics, but I’d much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else’s problems!
In some ways, I would be absolutely fascinated if Trump gets elected.
I’m fascinated by anything that deals with the unexplained. I love any show that totally makes me want to know more. How did they build these pyramids? Why did they find these carvings that look like spaceships?
I’m fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.
Right after watching ‘Kabul Express,’ I wanted to work with Kabir sir. Moreover, earlier he was a documentary maker, and the respective genre has always fascinated me, and I still desire to work in one.
I’m fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we’re living in.
I’m fascinated by the skills gap.
And so I’ve always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.
I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can’t stand.
From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.
I attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science before entering high school; I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and amoebae through a rather primitive toy microscope.
I’m extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I’m not just going to leap into it, because that’s not good for anybody.
I have always been an amateur history buff, and I’ve been fascinated by legal history.
There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.
I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don’t feel any shame over it. It’s only the opinion-makers and the ‘opinion elites’ who turn up their noses.
When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research ‘Here Be Dragons,’ I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe.
I’ve always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I’ve especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.
I have always been fascinated by Krishna, the Indian deity.
I’m fascinated by animals and couldn’t live without Dewy, my Boston bulldog.
I am always fascinated by the structure of things; why do things work this way and not that way.
I love to watch the movement of light on water, and I love to play in rivers and lakes, swimming or canoeing. I am fascinated by people who work with water – fishermen, boatmen – and by a way of life that is dominated by water.
As a child, l was fascinated by gemstones in the way that small children are fascinated by dinosaurs or trains. Stones seem very physical and look like sweets. You can look at them microscopically and imagine things about them.
It’s always fun to see faces that are either familiar or resemble yours. I was fascinated by movies like ‘Big Trouble in Little China’ growing up because there were so many Asian people in it! The same with ‘Year of the Dragon’ or ‘The Last Emperor’. It was just so great to see so many Asian actors working.
I’m fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.
I think Socrates was fascinated by Alcibiades. It’s almost the opposite of hypocrisy. I think it’s like when you can see the potential in someone.
I read everything that Tolkien wrote, and also read biographies of him. I was fascinated by his experiences in World War I, which includes the loss of life of some of his very, very close friends. I think he writes about that a lot in ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings.’
Style is not my long suit, but I’m really fascinated by it.
Growing up in the 1960s, I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t fascinated by airplanes and rockets.
One of the things I’m fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.
I’m very fascinated by genre.
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.
I’m fascinated by failure, and I’m fascinated by finality. Shakespeare’s historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.
I think, as kids, everyone is fascinated with dinosaurs. I definitely was. It is the ultimate big, huge, monster.
I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.
I’m more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it’s not an obsession, it’s a pleasure. There’s never enough time.
The whole celebrity culture thing – I’m fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.
I’ve been fascinated with all kinds of weapons my whole life, and as I have been able to afford to acquire pieces, here and there I started to collect.
People who work in factories or in the woods or maybe a dairy farm – for years, I’ve been fascinated with people like that. No pretensions. They just live their lives. I found them beautiful. They were all I seemed to be interested in writing about.
The theme of luck comes up a lot. It’s something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren’t lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I’ve always been fascinated by that.
Death is the one – the one thing we don’t have many answers for. We understand how people die, but we don’t know what comes next, and that’s something that’s always fascinated and disturbed me and frustrated me.
My cousin lives in Delhi, so I kept visiting the city and got really fascinated with DU. Apart from studies, one also gets good exposure to music here. For an artist, there are a lot of opportunities in the city.
I am fascinated by that person who is trying to live authentically, but they are on the outside of society, so how do they manage in the world around them?
I’ve always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don’t think adults do.
I love ocean life. I’m fascinated that so much of it remains unexplored by human beings. Diluted seawater consisted of nearly the same concentration of elements and minerals as blood plasma. They’ve got the same amount of sodium, too.
Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don’t think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.
A lot people don’t know that Mannie Fresh is one of my favorite producers because I used to just be fascinated with how he would be producing stuff. He’d be silly, too, when he raps.
I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.
My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual director, and I became fascinated by the traditions she brought into our lives.
I did plays because I liked plays. I studied psychology because I was fascinated by the subject, and I hope to keep doing films because I love the medium.
My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I’m fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
And so from that, I’ve always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
Early ’90s, I was big, big into Sinatra. I was in college. I was fascinated.
The secrets of small towns have fascinated writers and readers since the first psychological thriller was penned.
I don’t know why. I’m fascinated with stars and space. I just love them.
I am fascinated by women. They’re as close as we men get to experiencing ‘the other.’ The challenge for me was to know and accept fully formed, powerful women.
I’d be so fascinated to talk to a psychologist or sociologist about the deep psychological impact of seeing oneself represented. I don’t think we’ve really touched the surface of what it does to the psyche of a people if the only image of you out there is negative. Or if it’s never out there.
I am and always have been fascinated with people, and I have a very good time coming up with the narratives of people’s lives, exploring how a person thinks and feels.
I see people as haunted by the selves they don’t know… I don’t have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember.
I’m always fascinated by how different writers’ rooms work.
I’ve always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.
Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.
The Church of Satan was something, aesthetically, that we were always really fascinated with and wanted to emulate. I think it’s a good look.
I’ve spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I’m strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus’ teachings are so radical; they’re just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don’t like the living Jesus.
What amazes me is that the whole world is fascinated by Kim Kardashian. What’s her talent?
We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.
One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you’d be at a stoplight, and you’re with everybody; there’s a homeless dude and some weird celebrity and a cop and someone who looks exactly like you.
I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.
‘Poltergeist’ was really the film that really scarred but fascinated me with puppets and dolls, clowns, and stuff like that. I’ve always been afraid of clowns, and then my fear of puppets came around, and ‘Poltergeist’ was the perfect combination to scare me with a clown doll.
The students on my course were fascinated by the idea that gravitational waves might exist. I didn’t know much about them at all, and for the life of me, I could not understand how a bar interacts with a gravitational wave.
Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do what they do. I’m fascinated by it, and I have such a respect for it.
Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved animals and been fascinated with them.
Every June, Gypsies come in caravans from all over Europe to honor Django Reinhardt at a festival in Samois-sur-Seine. When I was little, I started hanging out with them. They fascinated me – they really, literally, live in the moment. They take every day as if it’s their last.
I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you’re dreaming, you are simulating a world in which you are living.
When I was a kid, I really loved game shows. For whatever reason, I was fascinated with them and watched them a ton.
I am equally fascinated and awed by visiting an Alexander McQueen show as I am looking under a microscope.
I got an offer at ‘Vogue.’ And I desperately wanted to work in magazines. My interest wasn’t in fashion, but when you get an offer right out of college for a magazine that big – I decided that it was probably better to start at a big name magazine, even if I wasn’t necessarily fascinated with the subject.
As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.
The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it’s interesting.
I’m so fascinated by the influence of social media on fashion. I’ve seen so many artists on Instagram, up and comers you would have never known otherwise.
In general, I’m fascinated by women who exist outside of society’s mores and values.
I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, ‘Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.’
I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn’t think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.
My hand still shakes when I sign autographs. I still go and sit in the movies like everyone else and look up there and go ‘God! Movie stars! Wow!’ And I’m in this business. I walk out there just fascinated, and I always want to stay like that. I’m just a little kid going to these movies, and I don’t ever want to change.
I’ve always been fascinated by real scientists – Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and so many others – how they’ve come up with solutions to very complicated problems that nobody else can seem to figure out.
I’m always fascinated by the theme of children who parent the adults.
People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.
I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.
I don’t know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with – if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him – I think that’s a man’s way of tuning out.
I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.
I’ve been fascinated by the world ever since I read ‘Kitchen Confidential’ by Anthony Bourdain. I’ve watched ‘Top Chef’ and watched interviews with chefs on ‘Charlie Rose’… I thought they’re really intriguing characters, and they really encapsulate that tension between vision and commerce, art and commerce.
I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.
I love taxidermy. I collect taxidermy. I’m fascinated by the art of taxidermy. But on a more artistic level, I look at taxidermy as pulling something from the wild and taming it, and posing it in a style of your own personal pleasure that will last forever, and ever, and ever.
I’d always been extremely fascinated by the French Nuit Blanche, which is a weekend that they have in Paris where they keep all the museums open until dawn. You can go and hang out in Versailles in the middle of the night and watch the sun come up.
I’m always fascinated by the ‘who would you like to work with’ question. I’ve never really had an answer; it only really comes as you work with them.
The opportunity to completely become someone else and inhabit them is something that has always fascinated me greatly as an actor. With a bit of fortune, a few more of those opportunities will lie waiting for me in the future.
I’m always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it’s fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.
I had been obsessed with the Arthurian legends all my life, and I knew that that would work its way into any trilogy I wrote. I was fascinated by the Eddas, the Norse and Icelandic legends, Odin on the world tree.
I’m fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I’m fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies.
I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.
I’m fascinated by the Philippines because I’m from here. I was born here. I’m a Filipino.
I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
I am always fascinated by the mental struggles that people and characters have.
I have always been passionate about dancing and acting, and before I was passionate about it, I was fascinated by it.
I’m always fascinated by the disjunct between what’s really happening on the ground and the propaganda machine that feeds America alarmist news about immigration.
I’m Mexican and Kenyan at the same time. I’ve seen the quarrels over my nationality, but I’m Kenyan and Mexican at the same time. So again, I am Mexican-Kenyan, and I am fascinated by carne asada tacos.
No, I’m not a comic book guy. I’m pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.
I’ve always been fascinated by the military, the discipline they have and the sacrifices they make to defend the country. It’s something I’ve always been interested in.
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the ‘invisible interface,’ or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.
I’ve always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.
Now I’m president. I get to meet a lot of other company presidents. They’re such weird people. I’m fascinated by them. I use some of them as enemy characters in our games.
Why did I go back to school? After working with giant snails as the manager of an abalone farm, who wouldn’t be fascinated with the inner workings of the mind? They are a very contemplative species.
I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people’s backs.
I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another – they get fascinated by magic tricks.
But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando – perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all.
Emotions interest me, and I’m fascinated by how a child’s mind works.
I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.
I used to aspire to being more of a traditional bass player, to be honest. People say I play it like a guitar – and I was a guitar player when I was growing up. I started learning when I was eight, and that’s what I was fascinated with in my teen years.
When you spend a year or two researching a subject, and you’re still fascinated by it, that’s a good indicator that what you’re doing will appeal to others, as well.
I’ve always been fascinated by everything with wings.
Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did – Tell me what you do – once you can persuade someone that this is all you’re after, you can’t shut them up because we’re all fascinated by what we do.
I’m not a big crime reader, but I’m reading Michael Connelly’s ‘The Reversal.’ I’m going back to his novels. I’m also reading Keith Richards’ ‘Life.’ I’m always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late ’60s and early ’70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.
I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton.
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.
I’ve always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I’m not an admirer of them.
People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.
I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
I’ve always been fascinated by the desert.
People are fascinated by the darker sides of human nature, and I think they’re also interested in seeing the ability that a particular detective or group of detectives might have to solve the crime and put the world right again.
I’ve had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I’ve been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions.
If there was one key to happiness in love and life and possibly even success, it would be to go into each conversation you have with this commandment to yourself front and foremost in your mind, ‘Just Listen’ and be more interested than interesting, more fascinated than fascinating, and more adoring than adorable.
I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
I’ve often been accused of dressing too well. I’ve always been fascinated by fashion, though I don’t think I’m particularly fashionable.
I have always been fascinated by chefs and I make it a point to meet them at all the hotels I visit.
My dad was always fascinated and amused by Trump, so I learned to be fascinated and amused by Trump.
I’ve always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.
Sounds always fascinated me.
I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in.
Obviously, I carved out a pretty successful path and career for myself. But I’m kind of fascinated with, for lack of a better term, Renaissance men. And women. People who do a lot of different things.
Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
I’ve been fascinated over the years by the way refrains work. Think, say, of the refrains in Yeats’ ballads. Ideally, each time the refrain comes back in a poem, it is both the same and different. It works by counterpoint and reiteration. It accrues meaning.
I’m just mystified and fascinated by women, and I’m still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I’m unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn’t inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I’m getting closer.
I’m fascinated by technology and how it is changing the way we live and view our humanity.
I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don’t admit it.
I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.
I’ve always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to become a psychotherapist.
I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.
I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what’s the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
I like to think I’m a listener, and I’m fascinated by observing people – I suppose you just lock that in.
I’m fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.
I’ve always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in ‘Lipstick Jungle’ were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, ‘If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.’
I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could.
In the mid-1970s, there was this huge boom of stand-up comedy throughout North America. I went to see a show at a club called Yuk-Yuks, in Toronto, and I was just fascinated. I ended up coming back for amateur hour on a Monday at midnight and got up there without any thought as to what might come of it.
I was fascinated by the Black Panthers because I’d been in contact with the Nation of Islam, thanks to Muhammad Ali, and their way of talking was that the whites were the devil, and they’d get rid of them once they took over.
I’m not so fascinated by these ingenue roles. I tend to gravitate towards women in plays or shows or films that are more chaotic or have something dire going on.
I’m really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the ’30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-’60s and ’70s.
I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format – how it works, the device of the silent movie. It’s not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling.
I’ve always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you’ll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It’s a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.
Being a musician has actually surrounded and immersed me in pop culture and youth culture from a very young age. But even before I was singing in bands and creating any kind of art, I was always fascinated by pop culture.
I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
I thought maybe I should write or study law. I even had the idea to open a flower shop. But I was so fascinated with film, I couldn’t stay away.
I was always fascinated by strength. Arnold was an idol of mine.
I’m fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things – the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it’s so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying.
I used to tell people I was a comic and they’d be fascinated. Now all you get is: ‘Oh yeah, my cousin Steve’s a comic.’
I’ve become fascinated by the idea that it’s really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it’s 150 improvements.
I’m fascinated by female relationships.
With ‘Wind River,’ I became fascinated with the notion of how you overcome a tragedy – accepting it, making whatever peace you can with it – without ever knowing what really happened.
Growing up, I had a sense of the importance of commerce and trade to everyday life. Our family lived in several countries, and I was fascinated by the free exchange of goods and services between individuals and companies – the way both parties could benefit.
Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don’t know. I’m just very interested in what’s possible.
I started working with brain sensing tech in labs over a decade ago and was immediately fascinated by the potential to help people peer into the workings and behaviors of their own minds.
One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.
I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.
I wanted to be a gangsta from birth, not because of the music but moreso what I was seeing, what my uncles were doing. I was just fascinated with the street lifestyle from a young age.
The very name ‘Manson’ has become a metaphor for evil… He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.
I’m fascinated by Comte’s clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you’ve got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-instrumental art, are supposed to get you through the day?
My strengths, I think, are that I deal really well with people. I like people. I’m fascinated by how they work so I’m good at handling situations between departments on set or pre-production or post.
But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.
After a lifetime of world travel I’ve been fascinated that those in the third world don’t have the same perception of reality that we do.
You can learn at any age, but when you are young, you are like a sponge, and when you are introduced to more different types of things before the age of seven and eight, then you get fascinated by that.
I had earlier done a few paintings on Durga because I am fascinated by her.
I’m always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.
I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.
I’ve always had a fascination with vampires. It’s not that I’m exactly fascinated with the dark side. It’s the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.
I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
People are just fascinated by assassinations.
I’ve always been fascinated by the operation of memory – the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
If you’re talking to a child, you’re going, ‘This is the wonder of science and here’s why I’m so fascinated by it.’
I’m fascinated with acting now. In retrospect, I was only beginning to chip off the tip of the iceberg with how far I can go or what I was exploring inside of me that I hadn’t touched in a while as far as emotional headspaces.
My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
I am fascinated by people’s flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don’t have.
My dad had his own business and was extremely busy, but on a very rare occasion, he would play guitar and sing a bit. I was always fascinated by it. I wrote my first song in first grade because my dad was making songs up during those special moments, and it seemed like a fun thing to try myself.
I’m fascinated by the whole communist thing. No one has a lot, but everyone is the same. I like that way of living.
In fact, I don’t believe I’m guilty of any crimes, but I’ve always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there’s an erotic aspect to that.
Maybe because I had a sister with a disability I was already sensitised to and fascinated by people who think or develop differently.
The Amazons were notorious for their freedom: their sexual freedom, their freedom to hunt, to be outdoors, to go to war; and the Greeks, both men and women alike, were fascinated by these stories. Maybe it was a safe way to explore the idea of women who could be equals of men.
A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like ‘The New York Times.’
I’ve always had this fascination with the brain. I’m not really much of a religious person, but like anybody, you are at least fascinated by what some call a soul – what I would call the brain – and who we are and how we work.
I’m not anti-Hollywood; not at all. In fact, I’m rather fascinated by everything that goes on here. When I get hold of a copy of ‘Variety,’ I read it cover to cover; I love to know what people are doing.
Deep in the heart of Kentucky’s rugged Eastern Mountain region, there lives a woman who has fascinated and inspired me for two decades. She is known locally these days as ‘Mayor Nan’ – the octogenarian chief executive of Hazard and advocate for its 5,467 residents.
I’m fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.
Nobody’s born evil. I guess that’s why we’re drawn to violence. We’re fascinated by it, but there’s a moral in how you examine it.
If I wasn’t acting, I would want to be in the food and restaurant business. I really love to cook and am fascinated by the art of cooking in general.
Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn’t true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I’m just fascinated by.
I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We’re not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there’s something about him we’re really fascinated by.
I’m always fascinated by why a person becomes a writer.
I’m so fascinated by YouTube culture. I have no idea how it’s working, but more and more people are becoming Internet famous, and it is because it allows you to have an atmosphere in which you feel comfortable to be yourself, which you might not get otherwise.
It’s your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I’m not interested in the characters, I can’t go on. I have to be fascinated by them.
I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.
I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn’t?
I’m fascinated by people’s obsession with how they look and how humans really do judge you within the first few seconds of meeting you.
I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and worked for German television, I was of course fascinated by what he did. Then when I was around 15, I did my first movie.
Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.
Since I was a young wrestling fan, I’ve been fascinated by super heavyweights and was always amazed at Yokozuna’s amazing grace and agility. How could a man who was so large still remain so athletic and retain perfect in-ring timing and spot-on psychology?
I’m fascinated by comedy.
People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged.
I was always fascinated by the Torah, the Bible, in terms of story telling: heroes and villains, morality and flaws. There’s no better epic. Also, being part Latin and Jewish means I have a sense of the theatrical. There were always a lot of people in my house. My home was always filled with a lot of storytellers.
I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why.
I’ve always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.
I’ve always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book – which would be anything from a biography to a classic – to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.
I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don’t admire them but I’m interested in them.
I am fascinated, I suppose, by a flawed man with a streak of greatness.
I’m fascinated by film scores, especially film scores for children’s movies because they have to be able to entertain an audience that isn’t interested in music yet.
Ever since I made the short film ‘Black And White,’ which had almost no dialogues, the idea of making a silent feature film fascinated me.
I’m fascinated by people who can keep who they are in the midst of this business, which is all about not only pretending to be other people, but also that perception of who you are and how successful you are and your standing in the business.
In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its ‘measure.’
I don’t eat two days a week. And people are fascinated by it, but it works. If you cut two days of food out of your life you will lose weight.
You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.
I grew up in the unlikely place of Connecticut. The Eastern Woodlands. It was semi-rural where I grew up. I was fascinated by the Piqua and the Mohegan Indians of that area.
I’ve always been fascinated with twins.
I learned my color in Europe. I’ve always been a colorist, I think. I started when I was very young, being a bird-watcher, fascinated by the bird colors.
