Interesting Quotes

• Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.

  

  John Cameron
  • Help
  • Society
  • Interesting

• I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole people, and there's nothing an actor loves more than to do something different.

  

  David S. Goyer
  • People
  • Different
  • Interesting

• I think often we like to talk about the strength of black women, and really, that can become an interesting stereotypical trap - that these women are so strong, that they don't fear anything, they don't need help, and they have no vulnerabilities. Well, that's not a human person! That takes away a lot of the humanity as well.

  

  Jeryl Prescott
  • Women
  • Help
  • Black

• We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.

  

  Marcia Muller
  • Giving
  • Interesting
  • Wish

• I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Desire

• My nature is feminist. How could you not be a feminist and be alive? The world is full of brilliant, interesting women.

  

  Ali Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Nature

• '2001' is a really interesting movie because it came out in 1968, and everybody thought that that was possible, and look how ridiculous that was. We don't have ships like that, and you know, nobody in 1968 was going, 'Oh, that'll never happen!' But of course it never happened. We're not even close to it.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Movie
  • Interesting

• 'Anyway...I find what you write interesting.''That’s what people usually say when they disagree with it.'

  

  Ken MacLeod
  • People
  • Interesting

• It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. Venice has a lot of that too, but the face of it is quite beautiful, interesting, and textured.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Faces

• I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • Interesting

• If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is on the page, or an interesting director who has enough faith in the project that they can carry it through and get it somewhere.

  

  Ayelet Zurer
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Amazing

• Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Country
  • Interesting

• Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• Rio was always going to be on the schedule for me, whether I had won in London or not. Triathlon is one of those sports where the Olympics is always the most important and the most interesting race, and I always wanted to have a crack at Rio and defend my title.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • Important
  • Interesting
  • Sports

• The most interesting characters keep us hooked. Not likeable ones! Iago, Shylock, Darth Vader - are they likeable? Do you want to invite them to dinner?

  

  Alison Owen
  • Interesting

• When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting. I don't think I always got it straight.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Picture

• I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.

  

  Marie-Chantal Claire
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• There's something really interesting about having those close friends that you've had incredible times with but growing up and away from them. The underlying tensions, the shifting in the group dynamic, the little lies you tell to big yourself up: it's something that happens to us all.

  

  John Simm
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• Angela spared a glare for Kami, and then resumed her marathon glaring session at Jared. 'It's too weird. I'm going to call you Carl.' Jared scowled. 'I don't want you to call me Carl.' 'That's interesting, Carl,' said Angela, cheering up.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Said
  • Cheer
  • Marathon

• I think women, we are very interesting. We have a lot to say, and sometimes it's frustrating how all the lead parts are for men.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Men
  • Women
  • Interesting

• I’m not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I’d like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Money
  • Direct
  • Spotlight

• Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time.

  

  Diana Krall
  • Time
  • Different
  • Interesting

• I have led a very boring and hectic life but media has made it out to be very interesting.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Media

• In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

  

  Burton Richter
  • Interesting
  • Technology

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