Quotes About Curiosity

Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.

I wasn't into horror movies.

For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.

One of my favorite things about being the host of 'The School of Greatness' is that I get to learn from the best minds in the world about stuff I am fascinated by.

I think there's a lot of intelligence out there, but that's just my guess. Question is: Are they peaceable or hostile? You could say that the peaceable ones are just going to stay at home and play with their Nintendos, so if you do meet any of them, they might be hostile.

I've seen such things as you would not believe. I've seen motorbikes driven down hotel corridors - and had a go myself.

I don't know anything about the hotel business.

In the countries where they don't know me, which is only America, wherever I go, the hotel, the restaurant, the airport, people go, 'Oh, my! What's that?' That's good. That's good, because there is a curiosity there, which is great.

Hottest space that I think is interesting would be education, particularly, like, ages 3-10.

Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds.

As a kid I used to love going to open houses and doing DIY projects with my parents and sister around our home.

It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.

We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration.

How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world?

I expect New Horizons will see more that Hubble cannot see.

Hubble knows there is interesting stuff out there, but Hubble isn't quite big enough.

I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything.

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

I sometimes feel I have met everyone he ever met, but I never met him. I am afraid to say I have always been - the word I would have to use is - amused by Howard Hughes.

I've been to 25 psychics so far. I've even gone to see a woman called 'the mother' who just hugs you.

I'd like to change what people expect. I want to evoke something that's not nameable, for people to go, 'Huh?'

I've never read it because I'd like to see one Shakespeare play that I don't know what happens. I close my ears and hum whenever I hear anything about 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre.'

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.