Anjelica Huston Quotes

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

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• I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Never
  • Lonely
  • Bored

• You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Bored

• I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Trying
  • Want

• There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Knowledge

• I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Perspective
  • Ambition
  • Grace

• Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Help
  • Parents

• You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • You
  • Dying
  • Bored

• I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Book
  • Me
  • Challenge

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• I'm never bored.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Never
  • Bored

• So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Eye
  • Look
  • Actor

• I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.

  

  Wale
  • Up
  • Time
  • Pretty

• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • More
  • Bored

• The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Important
  • Want
  • Competition

• Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

  

  Sallust
  • Men
  • Thought
  • Ambition

• If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.

  

  Ian Harding
  • Mind
  • Daily
  • Bored

• It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Funny
  • Ambition
  • Directing

• My role at the USTA allows me to fulfill my ambition to open up opportunities for people to play tennis that may not otherwise have a chance or an outlet to play.

  

  Katrina Adams
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Passion
  • Ambition
  • Comparison

• I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.

  

  Dino De Laurentiis
  • Life
  • Long
  • Happy

• A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • May
  • Stills
  • Watches

• I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

  

  Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
  • Business
  • Sports

• My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

  

  Anjelica Huston
  • Ambition
  • Bored