Top 100 Interesting Person Quotes
#2. If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
Bette Davis
#3. Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.
Terry Pratchett
#4. Wearing a pair of yellow shoes does not make you an interesting person, that is of course unless you've just murdered someone in them.
Simon Doonan
#5. It's a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that's the job - to maintain the interest and the focus for that 42 minutes or whatever, and it should be a huge relief to those people that are the leads in the shows.
Mark Sheppard
#6. One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.
John Ortberg
#7. My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don't consider myself a very interesting person, so the characters I play are usually much more fun.
Nathan Kress
#8. In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter.
John Stamos
#9. I say everything's about company. A gourmet meal with an asshole is a horrible meal. A hot dog with an interesting person is an amazing meal.
Chris Rock
#10. It's very rare that I come to an event where I'm like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person.
Barack Obama
#11. My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.
John Waters
#12. I would love to play Marlene Dietrich in a movie. My dad's from Germany and so I feel like that would be a really interesting person to play.
Kirsten Dunst
#13. I don't believe that anyone who is a legitimately interesting person can be popular as a teenager," Mel went on. "Or ever, maybe. Popularity rewards the uninteresting.
Leila Sales
#14. John Malkovich is such an interesting person and such a fun actor to work with.
Liam Hemsworth
#15. Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.
Deborah Moggach
#16. To want to be an actor is enough - you don't need to tell us about it. The interesting person who comes with some life experience is always the person who is going to be chosen by me.
Kenny Ortega
#17. In fashion, it's always better to be an interesting person than a beautiful one. Character is much more fascinating than pure good looks.
Carine Roitfeld
#18. I'm not perfect, but those flaws make an interesting person.
Mary Frann
#19. Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to the vilest and most vulgar prejudices, and as mad as the winds?
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
Edmond De Goncourt
#20. If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
Jay Maisel
#21. Nora Barnacle is not a very interesting person." So said Richard Ellmann, author of the definitive James Joyce biography, to Brenda Maddox, author of the only Nora Barnacle biography, who quoted him to me.
Jessa Crispin
#22. Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#23. I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.
Paul Giamatti
#24. Eluned had to work very hard not to stare impolitely, for Princess Celestine was reputedly the daughter of a dragon, and thus naturally the most interesting person who could possibly interrupt afternoon tea.
Andrea K. Host
#25. I prefer to spend time with you. You're the most interesting person I know.
Sylvia Day
#27. I believe that a perfect house is like a perfect person; no one really wants to be around them and everyone secretly hates them. Be the weird person. Be the interesting person, the person that sometimes says inappropriate things or laughs too loud at jokes, and have your home reflect who you are.
Emily Henderson
#28. With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.
Robin Williams
#29. Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much.
Catherine Deneuve
#30. I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting.
George Saunders
#31. Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.
Henry Rollins
#32. Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite surprised by the slipperiness of some people in Holly-weird. There was a part of me that just said, 'If this is the way the game is played, I'm not sure I want to play it.'
Joyce DeWitt
#33. Then she realizes there's nothing meaningful or particularly interesting about seeing a celebrity in person, or even meeting one briefly.
Matt Wallace
#34. Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.
Greg Kinnear
#35. I always think challenges are interesting and help you to become a better person.
Aung San
#36. There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?'
Louis C.K.
#37. All of us are different. That's what makes us interesting and special. I don't want to be anything like another person. I want to be totally myself and go against the grain, forge my own path. I've learned that being different is what makes you stand out. It makes everything so much more intriguing.
Alicia Keys
#38. I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.
Peter Ackroyd
#39. I think it's an interesting thing to watch when a person is trying to keep it together and then ultimately when they do lose it a little bit.
Kristen Wiig
#40. I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.
Ira Sachs
#42. What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between.
Robert Motherwell
#43. I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.
Kiefer Sutherland
#44. It's interesting most people don't really know what a producer does and really the producer is the very first person on-site and the very last one to leave.
Carl Mazzocone
#45. It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.
Grimes
#46. The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.
Constantin Stanislavski
#47. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
Timothy Dwight V
#48. You want to be a better person? Go listen to someone you disagree with. don't argue with them just listen. It's remarkable what interesting things people will say if you take the time to not be a jerk.
Brandon Sanderson
#49. I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.
Tracy Chapman
#50. It was interesting that such a slight frame could contain so large a person.
Jacqueline Kelly
#51. It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.
Damien Chazelle
#52. I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that is right in from of him. I thought it would be interesting if you could watch yourself from a distance.
Matthew Shultz
#53. It's an interesting thing when you discover something about yourself. To go: 'Wow, I'm not the person I thought I was. I'm in the middle of something and I can't actually deal with it.'
Keira Knightley
#54. The interesting thing about text is that, as a medium, it separates you from the person you are speaking with, so you can act differently from how you would in person or even on the phone.
Aziz Ansari
#55. If you turned a Labrador into a person you would make Brad Kline. He's happy and gushy and about as interesting and complex as a tree stump.
Andrea Portes
#56. Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.
Konstantin Stanislavski
#57. Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
#58. I think dating is all about role playing, and figuring out what you want and don't want. You figure out more about yourself by meeting people. You're like, "I'm not right for that person, but why am I not?" I think dating is a really interesting journey.
Shiri Appleby
#59. If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.
Marilyn Manson
#60. Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
Anton Chekhov
#61. One cost, for the lonely: If you want to be interesting, the one thing you shouldn't do is really focus on the fact that 'I want this person to like me.' That's going to make you very uninteresting. But the lonely, they just can't help but focus on that.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#62. Is so interesting, is that when you're blindfolded and you're talking to somebody the conversation goes to places that it would never go if you could see the other person's reaction. You start talking about very intimate things. It's such an interesting experience.
Fernando Meirelles
#63. I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.
Diane Wakoski
#64. Maybe that's when bad scripts are written, when you choose the theme first. I consider that I've something to say when I've thought of a person, a moment, a single beat of the heart, that I think is true and interesting, and therefore should be seen.
Russell T. Davies
#65. You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#66. It will be interesting to find out something about her that no one else knew.
Hinako Ashihara
#67. All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.
Dan Gilroy
#68. The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives.
Cornel West
#69. Sconser n. A person who looks around while talking to you to see if there's anyone more interesting about.
Steven Pinker
#70. Andy Warhol's art wasn't that interesting to me. He was more interesting to me as a person. He was art himself. I don't even think he was really into art, per se. He may have liked to do it, but I think he was more into people being into him.
ASAP Ferg
#71. A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#72. I feel like it's always a good sign when you find yourself talking for hours about every topic ever. It's best when you just find the person interesting for no apparent reason.
David Lambert
#73. I've played a lot of cops and a lot of bad guys, so I would like to play a regular person and just live a regular life with something interesting about it. I love the idea of television and kind of infiltrating that.
Reggie Lee
#74. When a certain piece of music penetrates a person, a resonance is set in motion and an inner voice says: I like this resonance. It elevates me. It develops hitherto unknown possibilities in me. I don't recognize myself. This is very interesting.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
#75. Do not think your story [for a one-person show] is unique ... your story is the same as millions of others. But that's o.k. - you just need to find the one or two things that makes your story interesting enough to justify someone leaving their apartment and exchanging currency.
Julie Halston
#76. I always think part of success is being able to replicate results, taking what is interesting or viable about yourself as a professional person and seeing if you bring it into different situations with similar results.
Robert Downey Jr.
#77. I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
Nathaniel Branden
#78. An oldtimer is a person who's had many interesting experiences, some of them true.
Bob Gilluly
#79. Staying married to one person was boring. She figured she was too complicated for that. Interesting people had complicated lives.
Maureen F. McHugh
#80. On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, 'RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before.' And it's a way of essentially saying, 'I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.'
Ethan Zuckerman
#81. Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.
Donal Logue
#82. What's interesting about a person without problems?
Carla Bley
#83. It used to be irritating just because someone can meet you and before they would get a chance to get to know you, they'll go find someone else's story about who I am. For me personally, I just always think it's more interesting to get to know the person myself.
Ricky Williams
#84. I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.
Ed Sheeran
#85. See, one of the interesting things in the Oval Office - I love to bring people into the Oval Office - right around the corner from here - and say, this is where I office, but I want you to know the office is always bigger than the person.
George W. Bush
#86. No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children ... I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic
Richard Dawkins
#87. I think you must be running away from something pretty enormous if you don't want to see a person more than once or twice. I think relationships don't get interesting for quite a while. When the initial heady rush fades, that's when it gets really exciting.
Greg Wise
#88. The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.
J. August Richards
#89. The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.
Steven Levy
#90. Wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and the what-it-meant.
Joe Hill
#91. People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.
Andy Warhol
#92. You will speed up your growth by being selfish. So imagine that the people you're looking at can actually take care of themselves. And if you ask for what you want and trust that the other person will say yes or no powerfully, it will make things very interesting.
Neil Strauss
#93. Create a really interesting, complex person that you want to know more about, and take her on a journey that is rich and fulfilling and that has an end that is perfectly fulfilling, and that has an end that is perfect for that character, and the audience will love it.
Frank Spotnitz
#94. Andrian Monk (Monk Series) wife died in car accident and now and John wife in such accident (Person of Interest Series). - Pretty interesting, isn't it?
Deyth Banger
#95. I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.
Russell Banks
#96. Didn't they realize how much interesting shit there was to see and do in this world if you just woke up at a normal fucking time like a normal fucking person?
B.J. Novak
#97. It's an interesting thing, Top Chef. Some of the contestants will make you one great dish, and then make you something on the next show that will make you say, "Is that the same person?"
Wolfgang Puck
#98. It was interesting to see the change that came over Boris when he was speaking another language - a sort of livening, or alertness, a sense of a different and more efficient person occupying his body.
Donna Tartt
#99. You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.
Patrick Rothfuss
#100. No one understands me better and no one can make me laugh the way Bill does. Even after all these years, he is still the most interesting, energizing and fully alive person I have ever met.
Hillary Clinton
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