Hunter Schafer Quotes

I am like a sponge: I adore reading, watching films, and visiting museums and exhibitions. I am always in search of new things in many spheres.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

If you don't travel the world and see as much of it as you can - see different characters in different situations - then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

I try to learn as much as possible about so many different things in order to be able to talk to everyone.

The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.

I like doing things I haven't learnt about yet. I've always been interested in art, and I love doing art.

I loved to learn everything, everything in sight, and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go to new places, meet different people know and learn about things which you didn't know about.

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.

The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

I also have a role model back in New Zealand, a woman called Miranda Harcourt. She's an actress and a writer. Her willingness to stay open to material is really great. I read a lot, and I try to watch and listen to diverse material.

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.