Scarlett Moffatt Quotes

I can be a bit nosey. I like a bit of gossip.

I'm a real voyeur.

I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey.

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

Walking around sometimes, I would love to just be able to watch people, see how they act. Sometimes I would love to be invisible.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Writers are nosy people; we are endlessly curious: we ask questions when we shouldn't - we peek around corners when we are least expected.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

People should mind their own business. This particularly applies to those who are inquisitive, and those who jump to conclusions.

If you're like me and nosy, you're always eavesdropping on other people's conversations.

I think being fascinated by others is just who we are; we're curious creatures.

You learn a lot about people when you're sitting on their bathroom floor or on their toilet seat, rifling through their stuff.

There is an art to eavesdropping, but I think to some extent we are all guilty of picking up those little odds and ends that can be quite intriguing if you analyse them.

I'm just super nosy, I love trying to understand what's going on.

At night, I love to look in the houses. When I was little, I did that much more, when I was so bored. It might be awful in those houses, of course, but I still speculate about them in a romantic way. It's the same if you are famous: you are in the light, and most people have fantasies about you, but these fantasies have nothing to do with reality.

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

Selfishly I'd like to have invisibility because I've always wanted to go into other people's houses and see what they look like and just watch them interact.

I'm convinced we all are voyeurs. It's part of the detective thing. We want to know secrets and we want to know what goes on behind those windows. And not in a way that we would use to hurt anyone. There's an entertainment value to it, but at the same time we want to know: What do humans do? Do they do the same things as I do? It's a gaining of some sort of knowledge, I think.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.