Being Interesting Quotes

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

To my knowledge, there are, pretty much, two ways to be interesting: One is to actually do interesting things, achieve the remarkable. The other way to be interesting is to be interested, curious about the world and about other people - not relentlessly revelatory about yourself.

The worst thing a politician can be is dull. At least I'm interesting.

If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall be fairly confident of ourselves and may, with any luck, be confident of others. Our object will be to enjoy our selves. But to make sure that our names are permanently on the cast list, it will be advisable to be of interest to others. This aim must never be confused with the desire to be popular.

You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.

If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?

If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.

Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.

It's about having personality...it's not about being the bad guy, it's about entertaining people.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

I don't ever want to be boring.

If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.

I think it's important to show that... you can't be perfect, and you have to embrace the fact that you're original, and it's what makes you interesting.

If you're bored, it's because someone else is fulfilling his dream. Become a bore. It's the most interesting thing you'll ever do.

I studied religions and all kinds of other things in college. I took a Shakespearean villain course for English literature. It was really intense. I think that sort of rounds a person. In this business, it's really important for us to be interesting... and have interests.

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring.

If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.

But, she knew, you didn’t have to marry your soulmate, and you didn’t even have to marry an Interesting. You didn’t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got the standing ovation. You could cease to be obsessed with the idea of being interesting.