Quotes About Curiosity

Oh man, I always try to avoid anything that I can already imagine. I want the thing that I don't even know exists.

As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

I don't think an artist should always know why they gravitate toward something or someone. You are just drawn to things, and that's OK.

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.

Sometimes the art world can be a scary place, and you feel like you should know more than you do, but it's okay to not know everything!

It's always nice when you see an email in your inbox that says 'offer,' then you read the email and go, 'Oh, okay. Who's doing it, what's it about?'

I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the appeal? Tell me what to do, what are the exact lines from the script? Okay, I got it.' I am not that way. I would be a terrible bus driver. I'd want to be like, 'Oh, let's take this side road! Let's see what happens when we go down this back alley.'

I would fain grow old learning many things.

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

I love mysteries - just in an old school way.

You know how when you get older you actually want to learn? When I went to college, I wasn't as interested in the art history classes as I am now.

My older brother was the person who got me interested in science in general. He used to tell me what he learned in school. My first memory of mathematics is probably the time that he told me about the problem of adding numbers from 1 to 100.

As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.

I'm the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I've always been interested in babies, and I had lots of opportunities to watch them.

I grew up in Omaha and Milwaukee, and was always a very inquisitive kid.

Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.

I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.

I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.

When I was a young boy, I would watch my mom apply her makeup, so one day, I took a lipstick she had and put it on my mouth, trying to imitate her. It ended up all over my face.