My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
I want to be challenged, I want to keep challenging myself - whether or not it's changing yourself physically or just pushing yourself to a certain extreme. I get bored quite easily so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
We never want the audience to get bored.
"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."
I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them.
Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.
I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
I love what I do, and I don't think I'm the guy who can do, like, a movie a year and that's it. I don't know what I'd do! I've already put stuff independently on the Internet cause I'm bored! I just want to keep going!
I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.
I don't like giving interviews unless I have something to talk about. Why bore people and why bore media?
I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.
I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.
I'd rather be busy, working non-stop, than being bored at home, you know?
Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.
I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.
When I'm not acting, I do like to take a year off at a time, at least if I can, just in order to keep acting exciting - otherwise I get bored very quickly.
I've got my advanced scuba diving license. I'm playing tennis and exercising. I ride my bike everywhere. I've been finding new things. I've been more creative in music and doing different videos. And just meeting different people and being around and present. I'm wonderful when I'm just on nothing.
Much as I loved doing 'The Big Breakfast,' it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have to concentrate on.
As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don't let myself get bored. I just go surfing.
If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
