Quotes About Curiosity

It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

I live in the modern world, and I appreciate the most cutting-edge parts of it. But I also like to check out as much as I can.

I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.

I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.

My mom and dad had a store, and sometimes people would return broken stuff. I'd take it apart and reassemble it. At 16, I really understood the architecture of things.

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

I love Meredith Monk, and with Instagram, I get a chance to see if she has a cat, and what's she reading.

When I was a little girl, I loved monkeys. I wanted to be a primatologist. I went to the careers office to ask how. Because nobody could give me a good answer, I opted for acting.

I am not the one for monotony. I am all for chances and its every medium, every genre that I want to explore.

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.

When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like 'Godzilla.' All those monster movies.

I think, the first movie I saw that made me go, 'How did they do that?' was 'Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster.'

This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Everybody loves monsters.

When I was a kid, I really got into monsters.

I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.

I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do.

I'd love to spend a month in China.

Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read or encountered months or years earlier rather than in the last few days.