Quotes About Curiosity

I can't imagine catering to an audience that doesn't also interest me.

I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

I have the life of seven cats.

Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.

I always wanted to understand the causes of happiness. I'm a bit of a scientist, I guess you could say.

People never cease to amaze me.

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

Between 1961 and 1982, 'The Catcher in the Rye' was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. But all the talk about banning it made me rush out to find it.

As a kid, I always had my nose buried in the side of a cereal box.

Since I was really small, my mum says I wouldn't talk at breakfast because I would just read the back of the cereal packet.

I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.

People who sit for hours in a beach chair or an airplane seat without any reading material simply baffle me: What is going on between their ears, I wonder?

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.

I don't like doing the same thing over and over again, because I learn from being challenged.

I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

I'm attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

I want to be in some Willy Wonka-type weird stuff, a role where I'm an alien. Anything that's new and challenging and real. I like real stuff.

I would like to take up any kind of film that comes my way if I find the story interesting and challenging.

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.

I like being a 10-year-old kid who's in charge.

I like to constantly challenge myself with newer things that will help me grow and also keep me charged about life.