Quotes About Curiosity

How could you not wanna be in 'Doctor Who' at least once in your career?

I really look forward to that opportunity to be a student and discover things. That keeps it interesting for me. And I sometimes get easily bored, and there are still some things I wanna talk about instead of repeating something.

I just love stories, and I love movies, learning and seeing the world. Growing up in Iowa, it was like, you wanna see the world? Movies can help you do that.

We've always kind of tried to keep the mystique. We don't wanna give everybody everything. You give 'em too much, it's just white noise. When we do say something, we want it to be an event. When we go out and do things, we want it to be an event and kind of keep everything else behind closed doors.

I wanna be involved in everything, not just one thing.

I think because I went to school and because I'm a student, I'm so open and I'm a sponge, and I just wanna learn everything to make sure everything is perfect.

If you wanna write non-fiction you have to be interested in the world.

I just wanna keep making stuff that - in a very selfish way - I find interesting.

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

I never want to grow up.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

My adoptive mother always wanted to meet my biological mother.

I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me; like, all I ever wanted to do was kiss boys and be around boys.

When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America - I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don't accept it.

I like pursuing new endeavors. That's part of the reason I wanted to direct. I like to create things. I'm a Gemini. I'm always looking for something new.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to dye my hair crazy colors.

I picked up the guitar at 12 yrs old - basically, my mother and father bought it for me for Christmas. I played one at my friend's house; when I say played it, I just played around with it at my friend's house. It just struck me as something I really wanted.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies it all, and I think physics is basically the study of that.

The minute we became a global society, especially now that we're all connected up with the Internet, people wanted to believe in something a little more interesting than their earthbound lives.

I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.