
Top 100 Be Interesting Quotes
#1. I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.
Marjane Satrapi
#2. But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning.
Ally Carter
#3. If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people
Mark Twain
#4. It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.
Jim Garrison
#5. It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
Nate Lowman
#6. I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.
Sigourney Weaver
#7. I was a big fan of Joe's film, Narc, so when you hear there's a script coming over from Joe Carnahan, you know it's going to be interesting because he has such a fresh voice.
Andy Garcia
#8. I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.
Kyle MacLachlan
#9. If you have many desires your life will be interesting.
Jenny Holzer
#11. Even in the forty years that I have been practicing Karate, the changes have been many. It would be interesting to be able to go back in time, to the point when the kata were created, and study them.
Shigeru Egami
#12. Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.
Richard P. Feynman
#13. In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.
Steven Weinberg
#14. I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!
Dorothy Stratten
#15. One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will be interesting to you.
Gretchen Rubin
#16. Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.
James Dashner
#17. One is expected to show a bit of eccentricity to be interesting. Otherwise one is simply a sad old crone, and no one wants that, you know.
Camilla Lackberg
#18. In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.
Sybille Bedford
#19. I try not to read about myself. Why would reading about yourself be interesting? You're only going to be told you're doing a good job and get big headed about it, or be told you're rubbish and get down in the dumps. What's the point?
Nicholas Hoult
#20. You want to be interesting? Be interested.
James Franco
#21. Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it!
Deyth Banger
#22. Did you ever think about writing memoirs? You are a writer, and it may be interesting for people to read your story.
"I hate memoirs. But I am sure I will write a book about the Bowery Mission," Michael said.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#23. None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future. Some have expressed the very opposite feeling
the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
Irvin D. Yalom
#24. It doesn't need to be happy so to be interesting, there are outside sad stories which are also interesting... if you know what's about overall..., know the ending... don't you want to understand why??? By going deeper and deeper!?
Deyth Banger
#25. The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.
Richard Helms
#26. Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It's unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except maybe writing a story. And nothing fails as often, except writing stories. And like a story, love must be troubled to be interesting.
John Dufresne
#27. It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul.
Moby
#28. Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.
Jorge Luis Borges
#29. I thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting.
Clark Gable
#30. There are some things that as an actor scare you, and if you can capture that fear on screen, it will be interesting.
Alice Lowe
#31. It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.
Craig Ferguson
#32. Correct is fine but it is better to be interesting
Seth
#33. I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'
David Suchet
#34. When relationships are determined by manipulation, by the need for control, they may possess a dreary, bickering kind of drama, but they cease to be interesting. They are repetitious; the shock of human possibilities has ceased to reverberate through them.
Adrienne Rich
#35. If you can't be funny, be interesting.
Harold Ross
#36. We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.
Halford Luccock
#37. I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting' ... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
Baltasar Kormakur
#38. But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors.
Jim McKay
#39. I've never asked for life to be easy. I've only ever asked it to be interesting.
Maggie Stiefvater
#40. Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.
John Lennon
#41. The judge gave Michael permission to issue a statement. I think Jackson went way outside the bounds of the judge's intent. It will be interesting to see what the judge does tomorrow in court.
Catherine Crier
#42. I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. It makes for interesting work and when you're uncomfortable doing something; then it's going to be interesting when they film it.
Ansel Elgort
#43. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
Katharine Hepburn
#44. Actually, my experience over the past couple of years hasn't necessarily been something that would be interesting, were it committed to record.
Scott Hutchison
#45. I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.
Adam Clayton Powell III
#47. I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be interesting when you're doing it?
Chelsea Handler
#48. It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
Stendhal
#49. As an actor, to get a gift of a part like that is unusual. And then, to have the prospect of another one is always going to be interesting and exciting.
Brendan Gleeson
#50. It may be interesting to note how many statesmen there are who believe that the cost of living can be reduced by making the people of other countries help to feed and clothe us.
Charles Lindbergh
#51. Anything that's got Stephan Elliott directing it is going to be interesting, to say the least.
Bill Hunter
#52. I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.
Ewan McGregor
#53. The longer you stay in the job that you do the more you learn about what those around you do. As an actor I've always nosed around apologetically about: "oh wouldn't it be interesting if I could do that?" I can't imagine not wanting to do this everyday.
Jason Bateman
#54. Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.
Rick Yune
#56. You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting.
Iris Apfel
#57. I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.
Damian Marley
#58. Freddie used to say that Life could be safe, or it could be interesting, but it couldn't be both.
April Genevieve Tucholke
#59. For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.
H.G.Wells
#60. The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.
John Barth
#61. It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.
Brandon Mull
#63. True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.
Jimmy Breslin
#64. I think every person in a group has a right to protest something and not like something. I always find it to be interesting when people take that position before they've seen it.
Ryan T. Murphy
#65. I joined the PQ in the 1970s because of the issue of sovereignty. And that's why I wake up in the morning. A woman who gives birth to a country, that would be interesting.
Pauline Marois
#66. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#67. Maybe I just find long-term relationships to be interesting because I've never been in one or seen one that works well without getting fucked up in the end. Sometimes it seems like people are incapable of normal relationships anymore
Santino Hassell
#68. The only thing I know about books, is that they should be like a woman's dress: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to be interesting. I read people.
James A. Newman
#69. At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. Taboos are always going to be interesting.Our [ with Michael Dumontier] style has its range and there is room for explicitness in violence, but not at the expense of our classy, highbrow image.
Neil Farber
#71. Once you realise you're never going to be a somebody, you have to kid yourself that being a nobody can still be interesting.
Ian Pattison
#72. It would be interesting to remember the dreams I had here, at the Del Mar, more than ten years ago. I probably dreamed about girls and punishment, the way all boys that age do.
Roberto Bolano
#73. The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.
William Devane
#74. The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
Bruce Catton
#75. When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don't get boring.
Dave Matthews
#76. It is a tremendous honor to be a No. 2 seed, and to get to play so close to home in Dayton. It is an incredible feeling, and it will be interesting to start preparing. But right now we need some rest and then we'll get our guys going for the NCAA Tournament.
Thad Matta
#77. I don't really understand the concept of having a career, or what agents mean when they say they're building one for you. I just do things I think will be interesting and that have integrity. I hate those tacky, pointless, big, fluffy, unimportant movies.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#78. It will be interesting to have chance to view and the places from rich and poor to see what happens... if somebody knows the chance to do it it's smaller than before.
Deyth Banger
#79. A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they change him or her. All stories are journeys. They don't have to be shocking or outrageous: they simply have to be interesting.
Michael Scott
#80. It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and playing it kind of straight and bland doesn't interest me a whole lot.
Matt McGorry
#81. The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.
Agyness Deyn
#82. It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.
Aaron Lazar
#84. It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.
Jane Fonda
#85. Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.
Dave Barry
#86. Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.
Jeff Lindsay
#87. It seems that a lot of people my age try to be interesting by having problems or starting conflicts. I'd rather be interesting because I created something beautiful.
Brandon Stanton
#88. When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.
Kurt Russell
#89. All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most ... .
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#90. Our criteria for good data feeds are that they need to be dynamic enough to be interesting, something that users want to attune to throughout the day, etc.
David Rose
#91. Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, 'That would be interesting.' Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point.
Bill Murray
#92. If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
John Lancaster Spalding
#93. be interesting! Even if you have something interesting to say, your delivery can make people read, or run.
Neville Medhora
#94. That execution will take place here." She runs her fingertips over the table beneath her. "On this table. I thought it would be interesting to show you."
"I knew what would happen when I came here," I say. "It's just a table. And I'd like to go back to my room now.
Veronica Roth
#95. Being the hot girl ... you wouldn't want that. It's overrated. Being sexy is actually really boring to me. I'd rather be ... I'd rather be interesting.
Amelia Warner
#96. It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
A.E. Van Vogt
#97. Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.
James Anthony Froude
#98. It will be interesting to see if they accept the idea that not only actual corruption in politics needs to be addressed, but the appearance of corruption as well, ensuring public confidence and all that.
Larry Noble
#99. But the aspect of secrets is they leak out. If they didn't leak, they wouldn't be interesting.
CLAMP
#100. Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
Alfred North Whitehead
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