Jonathan Agnew Quotes

Painted talking heads is just boring.

I never prepare. I think that's completely overrated. It's a very simple job. All you have to do is hit this bright mark, stand in the right spot and say the line. So I don't really believe in preparation.

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar.

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

I've been amazed watching people who are not ready with their scripts when they're getting a lot of attention.

Actors get bored.

There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

I watch movies, and if I get the chance to watch television, I'm usually prone to watching something completely mindless and mundane that I don't have to follow so closely.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

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.

Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.

So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting.

I typically go overboard when I research new projects.

A TV Documentary is a one hour snore.

One of the major complaints for long-running shows is that they become mundane.

I always like to play. I cannot sit down and see what's going to happen, because it's boring.

On film and TV sets, they let you sit down. Theater is like pushing a boulder up a hill each night. It's a fun boulder, but it's a boulder.

Audience will get bored if just one kind of films will continue to get made.