Top 100 Quotes About Interesting People
#1. That is what a motorcycle road trip is supposed to be about, long miles and short stops in obscure places with interesting people and stories to be heard.
Geoff Smith
#2. I like playing interesting people, I like playing slightly twisted people. I like playing people who have large appetites who are kind of a bit larger than life.
Ron Perlman
#3. Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.
Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
Idries Shah
#4. I want to be independent. To meet interesting people ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.
Kate Morton
#5. Politicians are interesting people, most of them are smart and hard-working-I mean, they keep schedules no one else would think of keeping. Some of them live down to the caricature, but most of them are good people and they are charming.
Tucker Carlson
#6. Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
#7. Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be,
Lee Kuan Yew
#8. There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse
Benjamin Disraeli
#9. It's interesting. People go to an animal shelter and pick a dog that's been kicked, beaten, and has lost a leg and an eye, and they'll take that dog home and give it love and support, but they don't do that with people.
Nikki Sixx
#10. Interesting people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother.
Anna Godbersen
#11. One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#12. Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. I'm not particularly a career-oriented guy. I'm lucky. I can make really interesting films much of the time with interesting people yet be anonymous, have a private life. But, I'd like to have the choice of the better roles.
Aidan Quinn
#14. If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.
James Patterson
#15. There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.
Neil Simon
#16. I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people.
Anna Sui
#17. Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.
Guy Kawasaki
#18. I thought, "Wow, it sounds really stoned anyway." It sounded good to me. I found out that there was a lot in there. what all this comes down to is I was just trying to get in touch with myself. And I met some interesting people in New York who weren't in show business. I even got to know my dentist.
Iggy Pop
#19. The Americans are an extremely interesting people. They are absolutely reasonable. I think that is their distinguishing characteristic ... I assure you there is no nonsense about the Americans.
Oscar Wilde
#20. I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
Hedy Lamarr
#21. I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
Alan Rickman
#22. And that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.
Paulo Coelho
#23. A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it.
Jim Bishop
#24. I could always imagine more interesting places to be than where I was. And more interesting people than me being there. Eventually, this led to making up stories and writing things down.
Susanna Clarke
#25. I love acting. It's a lot of fun work, interesting work, and you get to work with some very interesting people. But I seemed to be OK walking away from it for a little while and then coming back to it.
David Alpay
#26. I know that I've been blessed in many ways, and I was fortunate enough to travel the world and meet a lot of interesting people. But I never felt that the modeling career was all that important.
Kathy Ireland
#27. Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.
Diane Sawyer
#28. We can't help being the most interesting people in the room.
Courtney Milan
#29. my own fatal tendency to try to make interesting people good. And
Donna Tartt
#30. I journeyed to a place where it's always raining cupcakes. I didn't need a passport, but I met a lot of interesting people and experienced new things. Even though the trip was a little bumpy, I got there just fine.
Lisa Schroeder
#31. I've got the best job in the world; I love it. I get to meet so many interesting people, and I get to make sure that other people with disabilities can tell their own stories as well.
Stella Young
#32. That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
Jock Sturges
#34. The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.
Michael Winner
#35. It's better to dream a lot, actually. It's good for the brain. Interesting people have interesting dreams. Dull people only have dull ones.
Anonymous
#36. Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.
Tucker Carlson
#37. It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about I.
Alan W. Watts
#38. Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.
Anna Deavere Smith
#39. We met a great many other interesting people, among them Lewis Carroll, author of the immortal "Alice"
but he was only interesting to look at, for he was the silliest and shyest full-grown man I have ever met except "Uncle Remus.
Mark Twain
#41. A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, 'You're one of the most interesting people I've ever met,' and I was like, 'Wow.'
Zac Efron
#42. Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you wanna do with your life; the most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives; some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.
Baz Luhrmann
#43. The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories; one spent with interesting people has merely a sort of bouquet.
Louis Kronenberger
#44. I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.
Suzanne Farrell
#45. I love boats. Boats are great. You can get all kinds of places and meet all kinds of interesting people, and you never know if they're going to try to eat you or worship you.
Ursula Vernon
#46. There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers who do it. They tend to be really arty and interesting people in real life. At the same time, they have an incredibly rigorous training schedule.
George Nolfi
#47. I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.
Ewan McGregor
#48. My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
Abigail Spencer
#49. For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.
Paul Haggis
#50. I'm part of an industry that everybody wants to be a part of. I do hang out with a lot of sort of powerful, interesting people like Bella Freud or Jay Joplin or Tracey Emin. I'm part of that group of people. Brit artists who are doing things. That's what I do. Some of them happen to be aristocrats.
Duncan Roy
#51. When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy.
Steven Pinker
#52. Interesting people aren't interesting because of what they always say; the most interesting people are the ones that always listen!
Martin R. Lemieux
#53. The film industry gives you the opportunity to meet interesting people.
Betty White
#54. History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity.
Dexter Perkins
#55. People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
Ian McKellen
#56. Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience.
Pete Seeger
#57. I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.
Sarah Ruhl
#58. I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.
Phil Keoghan
#59. I am weird, and you know what? That's OK. So are most interesting people.
Em Bailey
#60. My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.
Bill Gates
#62. The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
Louise Brown
#63. I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
Dani Shapiro
#64. I just like to stay busy, and I like to work with interesting people.
Adam Schlesinger
#65. Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
Adam Mansbach
#66. I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
Youssou N'Dour
#67. Sure, because it's a fairy tale. They're always so tediously moral. Nobody gets away with anything fun and all the interesting people are bad guys.
Jonathan Carroll
#68. I've surprised myself and made another career change. I had a great time at Google, met lots of interesting people, but I met some folks outside doing something completely outrageous, and after much anguish decided to leave Google.
James Gosling
#69. When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.
Neil Simon
#70. To be married in our profession is not an easy thing. Theres too many beautiful people around, very interesting people. Its just a matter of really having-being patient and probably having the capacity and the faith of falling in love with your own wife again. That happens to me.
Antonio Banderas
#71. The interesting people you wanted to be with - their minds were unusual, you saw things freshly with them and all was not deadness and repetition.
Hanif Kureishi
#72. When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you.
Trent Reznor
#73. Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.
Sally Quinn
#74. I want to be a Kid Reporter because I would like to meet interesting people, and I also love being in front of the camera! As a Kid Reporter, I would love to learn how to be a better writer and interview people.
Charlotte Arnold
#75. The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.
Peter O'Toole
#76. What needed to stop was the succession of dates with these relatively impressive, relatively interesting people, when I could tell from the first minute that everyone here was going to end as a runner-up in a long race to nowhere in particular, broken-down, exhausted, no one wearing a medal.
B.J. Novak
#77. The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.
Nell Zink
#78. Strip clubs are great places to meet interesting people you only wanna know for about 40 minutes.
Dane Cook
#79. Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.
Richard Linklater
#80. As long as there are still interesting stories and still interesting people that we want to meet, I can keep it going. But, we all have to be invested. If the room starts getting bored or I start getting restless, then we'll either have to change something in the show or maybe end it.
Jenji Kohan
#81. My grandmother knew J.F.K. and L.B.J. That was her world. I enjoy meeting interesting people. But that's not my world.
Katharine Weymouth
#82. I never had to plan what to write and I never calculated the amount of money I can make with books. Since I started writing, God has put into my life more experiences, knowledge and interesting people than what I can describe in my writings.
Daniel Marques
#83. You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the songs you've written into a completely different direction, because there's nothing more boring than going to the studio and predictably knowing what is going to happen.
Dave Gahan
#84. At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.
Donald T. Regan
#85. Somerset is the first proper country county you come to in the West, which isn't dependent on London and isn't full of commuters. Somerset is full of the most fantastically interesting people.
Charles Hazlewood
#87. I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker ... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#88. This way, at least, we get to meet and kill interesting people.
Aleksandr Voinov
#89. In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.
Nicholas Lemann
#90. I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
Paloma Faith
#91. If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.
Paul Schrader
#92. I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.
Shirley Henderson
#93. The characters I tend to play are a little more interesting than the standard heroes. Romantic leads can be a little more straightforward, I guess. But it just seems to be the parts I get, I don't know what that says about me. I enjoy interesting characters and interesting people, I suppose.
Iwan Rheon
#94. A good way to never run out of ideas? Surround yourself with interesting people, then think about how you can make them into characters.
B.A. Gabrielle
#95. Interesting people in all times and places tend to do two things well - they straddle boundaries, and they bend public perception.
Preston Lauterbach
#96. Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.
Drew Barrymore
#97. I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith ... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.
Stephen Mangan
#98. My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'
Tim O'Reilly
#99. In my career, I thought I've never wanted to get anywhere in particular. I just wanted to work with interesting people on interesting projects.
Cate Blanchett
#100. Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller
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