Quotes About Intrigued

#1. Fascinating, said the Patrician, and went back to not listening to Dibbler. He had not got where he was today by bothering how things worked. It was how people worked that intrigued him.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Ah. I suppose." Oh, this was deeply unpleasant. Being trapped into meaningless small talk with an idiot had never intrigued him, even on a good day. Which this wasn't.

Morgan Rhodes

#3. I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.

Wally Schirra

#4. I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.

Lara Pulver

#5. I've always been intrigued by cutout silhouettes. They are so intriguing, so poetic-the shadow of a soul. They tell everything about a character and they are open to be filled with one's own imagination.

Ann Demeulemeester

#6. It's in our nature to be intrigued. We're putting the bread crumb not in your mouth but close to your mouth. You reach a little bit, and that's why it works.

Bryan Cranston

#7. I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

Justin Lin

#8. I think main storylines are what always intrigued me, with those that were the relationships between the characters against whatever backdrop, whether it was in an ordinary universe or a universe in the future.

John Noble

#9. I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

Terry McMillan

#10. I have been intrigued by Catherine de Medici and the legends surrounding her for a long time.

Susan Carroll

#11. I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

Imtiaz Ali

#12. Slowly, her slim hand smoothed over the swell of his buttock, lingering there. A shocked laugh choked his throat, the sound muddled by a stifled groan that her intrigued touch elicited. The saucy little sneak thief was copping a feel. He felt inclined to turn around and let her get a handful.

Kristen Callihan

#13. I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Mike Mills

#14. As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.

Wally Schirra

#15. I don't know if there is anyone who wouldn't want to play some kind of superhero. I don't know if the world is getting sick of superhero movies or not, but I think you will endlessly have actors who are intrigued by the idea of playing a superhero.

Jennifer Morrison

#16. When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my desire to want to know him and his world became almost compulsive.

Hisham Matar

#17. My family took a vacation to Universal Studios when I was really young. Me and my brother Richard - who's also an actor - were both really intrigued by seeing the behind-the-scenes stuff of how films are made. We kind of begged our parents to get into acting.

Jonathan Jackson

#18. The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

Carol S. Dweck

#19. I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

Anthony Storr

#20. I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am concerned, character is expressed through sexuality. Art is able to represent human existence stripped to its essence by showing us the naked human body.

Thomas Koerfer

#21. My dream role is Richard Pryor, no question about that. I'm a big Richard Pryor fan. I've always been intrigued about the darkness behind his comedy; that would always be a dream role for me.

Dorian Missick

#22. I can't remember the last time someone intrigued me as you do." He

Joanna Chambers

#23. I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.

Annie Lennox

#24. With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago.

Dougray Scott

#25. I'm intrigued by all that, by religions, I'm intrigued by Jesus Christ. It's all fascinating.

Richard Ashcroft

#26. I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.

Sandra Cisneros

#27. I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are familiar with their face, like an actor or a politician. So, I began traveling around the country and doing speeches.

Diahann Carroll

#28. Often I'm struck by something that I read; then I go and research it a little more, especially if I begin a poem, and I find out that I need to know more. Then I usually get intrigued and excited about whatever it is I'm writing about.

Pattiann Rogers

#29. He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.

Robert Cormier

#30. Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.

Helen Fisher

#31. It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

Greil Marcus

#32. I think it is the hardest thing in the world. I'm endlessly intrigued by what human nature is capable of, both the horrible things we are capable of and also the heroic things. I'm really interested in exploring that side of human nature.

Veena Sud

#33. I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

Jimmy Carter

#34. I had read the book 1421 - The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies and become intrigued by his perspective on the era. Menzies, of course,

J. Maarten Troost

#35. My heart was beating in my stomach by the time he'd made his way past the welcome mat. His green eyes, intrigued by my fear, which I knew was clearly visible by now.

Victoria Leader

#36. I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.

Simon Hoggart

#37. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

David Blaine

#38. I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

Keisha Castle-Hughes

#39. I got intrigued by working in small theatres.

Ian McKellen

#40. Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.

Adrian Lyne

#41. The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.

Leo Ornstein

#42. I knew I never wanted to become an archaeologist. But at school I became intrigued by what people were doing on an everyday basis in the past.

Juliet Aubrey

#43. When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all that intrigued me. But what actors would propel themselves to do, and be, was awesome. It was like, how could these people give so much?

Rinko Kikuchi

#44. I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

Jason Lee

#45. I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.

Jude Law

#46. I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

Jerry Garcia

#47. I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

Richard Ford

#48. I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.

Keith Haring

#49. You been going through my undies?" I asked. Bruiser's mouth twitched. " 'Cause all I got with me are the travel undies. The leather, silk, and lace stuff is all in the mountains."
"You got leather undies?" Bruiser asked, intrigued. [ ... ]
I smiled, showing teeth. "Nope.

Faith Hunter

#50. As a child, I was as intrigued by the Evil Queen as I was charmed by Snow White.

Stephane Rolland

#51. When Steve Wise told me that he intended to argue in court before a judge that an animal could be a "legal person," it seemed like a novel, possibly far-fetched idea, but the more I thought about it, the more I became intrigued.

Chris Hegedus

#52. I'm intrigued on how music is made, that's how I started getting into it. Of course I've been in the booth before, just joking around to see how it is, and I'll make a couple of beats here or there and help my artists out. But other that, I'll stick to listening.

Kevin Durant

#53. When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city.

Christian De Portzamparc

#54. Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure.

Edmund White

#55. Why would anyone want to feel pain or fear?" Josh wondered aloud, both intrigued and repelled by the very idea. It seemed somehow wrong.
"So they can feel alive," Scatty said.

Michael Scott

#56. I saw the original that Gela Babluani wrote and directed called '13 Tzameti,' and that was very interesting. I believe it was a French film, and I was just intrigued by the awkwardness; the off-beatness of the film really just grasped me.

David Zayas

#57. I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

Jonathan Ames

#58. Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

Sherry Argov

#59. I am intrigued by glamorous women A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to.

Clark Gable

#60. People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

Jackie Collins

#61. I've been very much intrigued by and impressed with women. But I've never been intimidated. Even if I make a fool of myself, it's better to have tried.

Kellan Lutz

#62. I have always been very intrigued by the outside of buildings. I can just walk down the street and be content with watching facades. I don't have to go inside.

Mark Bradford

#63. I'm intrigued that the same letters from the alphabet are used in the word silent and in the word listen. Perhaps it's evidence that the most important part of listening involves remaining silent.

Robert Herjavec

#64. I'm as voyeuristic and intrigued as the next person as to how celebrities live.

Eddie Redmayne

#65. I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he is reading a poem. So the titles are an acknowledgment of the reality and value of that act in the world.

Matthew Zapruder

#66. I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.

Kevin Spacey

#67. As a child, I was always intrigued by the question: what is it that distinguishes a city from a town? Is it size? Population? Location? When I asked grown-ups, the confident answer was that a city has to have a cathedral - which, to a child raised in a devout Catholic setting, made sense.

John Burnside

#68. I love clothes. I don't know a woman who doesn't. But generally women are intrigued with fashion. Designers are almost making fun of us at times.

Olivia Newton-John

#69. I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places.

Robert Plant

#70. A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men do - the men are not really interested in the cabinet making.

Peter Temple

#71. I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

Sidney Poitier

#72. Like many Americans, I've always been intrigued by Bill Clinton. I obviously didn't always agree with him - enjoyed running against his legacy in 2000, when Al Gore was his designated successor, but I don't have anything negative I would say about Bill Clinton.

Dick Cheney

#73. I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.

Charles Palliser

#74. For those who are intrigued by the multiplicity of reality and the unique possibilities of their own vision, the creative is the path they must pursue.

Deena Metzger

#75. I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.

Bret Easton Ellis

#76. How can you think you won't hold my attention? I'm intrigued by everything about you.

Kelly Nicolson

#77. Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of the period, and you're forgetting that human relationships are the most engaging part of the storytelling process, then you're in trouble.

Ridley Scott

#78. Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

Martin Cruz Smith

#79. Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it.

Hugh Dancy

#80. Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.

Bernie Mac

#81. Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#82. The children are intrigued by these invitation, and it's only a matter of minutes before they find themselves engaged in a new world of possibilities.

Rachelle Doorley

#83. I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded.

Neil Cavuto

#84. 'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.

Neil Patrick Harris

#85. I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.

Hillary Clinton

#86. And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.

Jack Dee

#87. It's not often you get to hang out with someone you're really intrigued by. So when Will.i.am invited me to visit him at home, I couldn't resist.

Joanna Lumley

#88. I was intrigued by the idea of someone being stuck anywhere.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#89. A beat as Queenie drinks the whole story out of Newt's head. She looks both intrigued and saddened. Newt continues to work, trying hard to pretend Queenie isn't reading his mind.

J.K. Rowling

#90. I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny.

Nicolaas Bloembergen

#91. I've always been intrigued by things that insinuate femininity, so in my designs, something like a flower is never about the fact that it's a flower. It's more about what that repetitive motif implies.

Erdem Moralioglu

#92. For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.

Henry Louis Gates

#93. So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

Nick Cannon

#94. As a filmmaker coming from one of the youngest lands in the world, New Zealand - safe, green and democratic - I was intrigued by Afghanistan, with its literature and poetry, its old land and its deep history.

Pietra Brettkelly

#95. I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.

Aaron Tveit

#96. I can't believe in my own sadness, I can't take it seriously. I watch myself crying in the mirror, intrigued by the sight of tears.

Margaret Atwood

#97. I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.

Emeril Lagasse

#98. Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's kind of inspired me. I've always been intrigued in or interested in the topics I've been covering.

Yara Shahidi

#99. Intimidated?"
His head shook once. "Intrigued."
"Irritated?"
His eyes investigated me again. It felt intrusive, definitely not cursory. "Impressed.

Nicole Williams

#100. This I have always known - that if I did not live my life immersed in the one activity which suits me, and which also, to tell the truth, keeps me utterly happy and intrigued, I would come someday to bitter and mortal regret.

Mary Oliver