I Got Bored Quotes

#1. I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.

Christa Campbell

#2. When I got bored, I conjugated verbs. Kissing and conjugating go well together. They're both French. No.

Rebekah Crane

#3. I got bored with the topic; I felt this was 19th century physics. I was wondering if there was still something profound that could be made with light microscopy. So I saw that the diffraction barrier was the only important problem that had been left over.

Stefan Hell

#4. As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.

Ian Gomez

#5. My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a poem about it. And I did find that poetry was a way for me, I think as it for a lot of people, to articulate those things that seem hardest to say.

Natasha Trethewey

#6. I tried pulling myself out of the gutter once," Natty snickered. "I got bored.

S.J.D. Peterson

#7. What? I didn't drop you because I got bored. You. Rejected. Me! And fuck that, Eva. ALL I saw while I was with them was you. I closed my ficking eyes and pictured you. Just--- YOU.

Abbi Glines

#8. I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!

Lesley Nicol

#9. Daemon had not stayed.
My smile slipped from my face.
He was standing by the window, his back to me. "I got bored."
"I wasn't even gone five minutes."
"I have a short attention span.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. [Doing a bilingual album] helped artistically because whenever I got bored of writing in English, I would write in Spanish. It's always cool when you have the choice.

Enrique Iglesias

#11. I'm kinda tired. I was up all night trying to round off infinity. Then I got bored and went out and painted passing lines on curved roads.

Steven Wright

#12. I got bored and then joined the British SAS. It was five very exciting years of my life, and then I'd always had this passion for swimming, so started swimming around the world, in some of the most exotic and distant and dangerous locations.

Lewis Pugh

#13. I got bored of not feeling affectionate towards girls.

Rod Stewart

#14. I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered."
"What! How long has it been?"
"Five minutes. I got bored.

Jonathan Stroud

#15. You took so long I got bored." She widened her smile, teeth showing. "Next time freshen up quicker, princess.

Katherine McIntyre

#16. I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.

Lily Cole

#17. I don't know how long i could be a vet before i got bored and started shagging stuff.

Frankie Boyle

#18. Do you wanna play? Everyone's dead, so I got bored. Did you come to play with me?
Wrath

Hiromu Arakawa

#19. I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

Holly Black

#20. Thank God for my ADD. I would have killed myself along time ago, but I got bored of it when something else diverted me.

Jason Hartnett

#21. I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.

Don Ellis

#22. When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.

Ben Falcone

#23. It's hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I've never gotten bored with it. It's difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I've got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.

Jim McKelvey

#24. Auditions are just torture. I'm trying to get better at it. It's a very difficult thing to do. You go into a tiny room with a camera with somebody who is doing this with 100 other people, and they're so bored, and then you have to be like, 'Hey! I'm gonna show you what I got!'

Kurt Braunohler

#25. I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

Dean Karnazes

#26. Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.

Deborah Harkness

#27. Sometimes when I'm bored, I like to people watch. And I got to a touristy area and I play this game I just made up. I call it Lesbian or Midwestern?

Bonnie McFarlane

#28. I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.

Ross Lovegrove

#29. As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored.

Amit Kalantri

#30. I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

Sarah West

#31. I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.

Neil Young

#32. We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and we tried for a couple of days to fill it out (I of course treated it like we'd been asked to write a new book of the Bible), but we got really bored with it and gave it up.

Hank Stuever

#33. I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

Lois Battle

#34. We should have a way of telling people they have bad breath without hurting their feelings. Well, I'm bored. Let's go brush our teeth. Or, I've got to make a phone call. Hold this gum in your mouth.

Brad Stine

#35. There were 10 or 15 years where all the Scandinavian movies were gray and light brown. I got really bored with it. I really felt that movies had to have that life of vivid colors.

Susanne Bier

#36. I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, 'You've got to go to this youth theater.' I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories.

Justin Chadwick

#37. I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.

Ira Glass

#38. When I got here, I did get bored ... I got more and more nervous here too, not knowing anybody. And I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. It's the one thing I can't do.

John Green

#39. I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.

Rhona Mitra

#40. But mostly I was turned on. And curious. And bored with the Naughty Rabbit. Bring on the Naughty Cop. "Charlie." I set my beer bottle down and got on my hands and knees. "Show me.

Melanie Harlow

#41. I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very ... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#42. I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.

Dan Wheldon

#43. I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar,

Elena Tonra

#44. I got fired once for putting like a packet of biscuits through a fan - I was really bored.

Gold Panda

#45. I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

David Suchet

#46. I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

Bernadette Devlin

#47. Hell - you'll be lucky to join the circus!"
"I don't need to join the circus." Ethan stretches his arms to the sky, bored with the entire situation. "I live with you, don't I?"
"He so got Tad there," I whisper.

Addison Moore

#48. If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

Viggo Mortensen

#49. My acting career wasn't going where I wanted it to. I wasn't getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing.

Susan Strasberg

#50. With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to do something a bit more holistic, so there were lots of different points of view, and I wanted to look at aspects of crime that you don't tend to look at.

Denise Mina

#51. After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

Yuichiro Miura

#52. Shabelsky: I'd go into the flames of hell, into the jaws of the crocodile, just so as not to stay here. I am bored.
I've become dulled from boredom. I've got on everyone's nerves. You leave me at home so she isn't bored alone, but I've made her life hell, I've eaten her up!

Anton Chekhov

#53. If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

Earl King

#54. It was a very idyllic childhood, surrounded by utterly beautiful landscapes that I got very, very bored of when I hit my teens. But being on your own a lot and being bored is good for your imagination. It makes it stretch.

Jessica Raine

#55. I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people - people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin - that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life.

Gillian Flynn

#56. Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much.

Jack Kerouac

#57. I was bored stiff while reading this. I got so bored I wanted to slit my wrists to see how my flatmate would react.

Zaki

#58. Sometimes I got so bored of trying to touch her breasts that I would try to touch her between her legs, a gesture that had a sort of self-parodying wit about it: it was like trying to borrow a fiver, getting turned down, and asking to borrow fifty quid instead. These

Nick Hornby

#59. I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

Kit Williams

#60. I've always enjoyed making up stories, especially when I was bored and just sitting around. It got really serious after the children came along.

Ann Leckie