Quotes About Curiosity

I was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and from an early age was interested in technology and engineering.

Musicians and non-musicians alike are priding themselves on the width and breadth of their musical interests, which I think is to be encouraged.

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.

I'm a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan; I would be really annoyed if anyone told me anything about what was going to happen in the last eight episodes.

Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.

Kids who read are bright.

At ten I was bright.

I'm very simple. I have to be. I'm not very smart. I start broad, then go deep where I'm interested.

I have always loved broadcasting - as a child in Liverpool, I would wake up and listen to Morning Merseyside on BBC Radio Merseyside and wonder, 'How do they do that?'

When Jen Aniston and Brad Pitt broke up, I was dying to see something that said they were getting back together.

I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.

I lived in a bubble as a kid.

If you blow enough bubbles, after a while you sort of get into it.

We thought we completely understood bubbles when we were kids. But we didn't. Bubbles are these amazing things. It's just that people aren't paying enough attention.

I was a big aviation buff as a boy.

I was always a history buff.

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.

Otherness is what I have always liked about bugs.

My kid really loves bugs.

In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.

Growing up, I loved magic, I loved acting, I loved comedy. I really didn't know what direction I was going. I was trying a whole bunch of stuff.

Argentina and Burma. I have been to most of the countries in the world, but not those two. I want to shoot doves in Argentina. Burma, of course, because no one has really been there.

You got to be interested in other things. If you focus on one thing, you're going to eventually - like, you're going to get bored with it, or you're going to get burned out on it.