“I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.” PeopleWayLifeNeedsMadeStillsFeltInterestingClassSubjectsPaintingDrawingBest WayGet BackVery Interesting Author:Peter Wright
“Melodies are far more interesting. They are there, in your face, in certain sections of the songs. People do complain about the melody thing, but we do hit patches of melody and beauty, as well as the other stuff.” PeopleWellsFacesCertainSongStuffInterestingComplainingMelodyYour FaceSectionsPatches Author:Scott Walker
“Sexuality is a topic that has huge shifts in -society. Attitudes toward different sexualities change, but the actual sexuality of a human being is something that's consistent, and it's consistently interesting, and so people write about it.” PeopleWritingHumansDifferentHuman BeingsInterestingAttitudeHugeSexualityConsistentConsistentlyTopics Author:Ben Barnes
“When people can be vulnerable to one another then you're kind of giving people permission to really be yourself and not try to impress all the time and you get into more interesting work. You're being real and you're not afraid to mess up or seem weird.” PeopleGivingTryingKindRealSeemsInterestingVulnerableMessBeing YourselfBeing RealNot AfraidPermissionImpress Author:Mark Webber
“It's interesting when you go out into the world and see which of your roles have affected people.” PeopleWorldInterestingRolesAffected Author:Rose McGowan
“I really just enjoy listening to talk [to John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling]... not even about acting or anything. It's interesting because I felt really connected to all these people very easily. They're all very open emotionally, like we're in the scene together, so you never feel like anyone's acting.” PeopleFeelsTogetherFeltEnjoyHurtInterestingActingListeningSceneConnectedCharlotte Author:Kirsten Dunst
“It's interesting to watch people go through it in something like this. I mean, what other then Melancholia films do they portray depression in?” PeopleMeanFilmInterestingWatches Author:Kirsten Dunst
“It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced to face issues and emotions, feelings, that they have. So it kind of forces them to face it head on, which I think is a really interesting dynamic. And I think it should be interesting and probably a good thing for the relationship.” PeopleThinkingShouldKindSometimesCharacterFeelingsRunningFacesForceInterestingEmotionCasesIssuesGood ThingsRunning AwayFoldsReally InterestingEmotions Feelings Author:Emily Deschanel
“I wouldn't have believed it. I still barely do, truthfully. I'm so continually fortunate that I keep coming across these smart, interesting, creative people who pick me. It's just stupendous.” PeopleStillsInterestingCreativeSmartPicksFortunateCreative PeoplePick Me Author:Julia Roberts
“I'm sure you find it fascinating. It's always interesting for everybody to look at people who've been pushed to the brink. You wonder how you would fare with that. Nobody's interested in somebody who doesn't ever really do anything. I don't have a choice in that. I will always go for those kinds of characters. Each one is a separate choice for me, but I think it's fairly natural to find yourself gravitating towards people who have done extraordinary things.” PeopleThinkingLooksKindDoneCharacterChoicesNaturalInterestingWonderExtraordinaryFascinatingFinding YourselfExtraordinary Things Author:Christian Bale
“I'm here to challenge myself and to see whether I can shape-shift in an environment that's actually quite daunting, but which I think would be nice to shine a light into. The destination of any interesting drama is that you shine a light into a place that not many people know about.” PeopleThinkingKnowsI CanLightWould BeChallengesInterestingEnvironmentNiceDramaShapesShiningDestinationBeing Nice Author:Tom Hardy
“I think it's very interesting, people who can't stand people who whinge and whine. It seems almost like a class issue. Because you think about who is the most positive, who's the most redemptive songwriter that's ever existed in your lifetime?” PeopleThinkingSeemsInterestingClassIssuesLifetimeSongwritersVery Interesting Author:Glen Hansard
“Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there's a distinct difference, it's interesting if you look it up. Sociopath if you look at the medical definition, the profile of a sociopath is that they are supremely intelligent people that are also pathological liars, they have no moral structure and there is one more, they have no compassion or empathy for other people.” PeopleIfsLooksDifferencesInterestingCompassionMoralEmpathyIntelligentStructureDefinitionsMedicalLiarsProfilePsychopathSociopathShorthandNo CompassionPathological Liar Author:Cillian Murphy
“I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.” PeopleStoriesInterestingBehaviorCome UpMost InterestingAffinityInteresting Stories Author:Willem Dafoe
“Everybody can take a good picture. Everybody is interesting. Everyone has an interesting face. Some people are more difficult or more nervous or more tired. When you do a movie, you have action, you're talking, you're moving. You don't see the camera. Taking a picture with a photographer, you don't talk, it's more difficult than in a movie for your body to relax, to be yourself.” PeopleBodyActionFacesMovingDifficultInterestingTalkingCamerasTiredPhotographerYour BodyNervousBeing YourselfRelax Author:Keira Knightley
“People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.” PeopleStoriesInterestingConflictMost InterestingInteresting Stories Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“I like comedy, but I like comedy as a device in drama. It's more interesting for me to use comedy to seduce people into thinking about something serious. If you want to hit a beat in a drama, you can distract people with a little comedy, and you can punch them in the gut with some emotion.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantLittlesUseInterestingEmotionComedySeriousDramaBeatsGutsDevicesSeducing Author:Steve Coogan
“I don't ever want to take a part in order to prove that I'm capable of doing something. It's all based in doing stuff that's interesting or working with people who would be fun to work with.” PeopleWantWould BeOrderFunStuffInterestingProveCapable Author:Steve Carell
“I'm very keen. Adaptations of other people's work, too. I got fascinated by the adaptation process, so I think that'd be a really interesting task. I would happily write original screenplays as well. I think it's become one of my favorite genres.” PeopleThinkingWritingWellsProcessInterestingTasksOriginalsMy FavoriteGenreFascinatedAdaptationReally InterestingScreenplays Author:Emma Donoghue
“There's several ways to be a journalist. One way is to be combative and take the person to task and what you have is a portrait of somebody defending themselves, which is interesting. The other thing is to slip into their world and really be a representative for all the people that love the experience of that artist, and have them get so comfortable that you become invisible and they're themselves.” PeopleWorldWayPersonsArtistInterestingComfortableTasksInvisibleOne WayJournalistSlipsRepresentativesPortraits Author:Cameron Crowe
“They’re a nasty bunch of people. The Riot Club’s sole purpose is to celebrate wealth, elitism, hedonism, and excess - just random acts of destruction and chauvinism, which is interesting because our Prime Minister, our Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Mayor of London were are a part of this club.” PeoplePurposeWealthInterestingDestructionClubsLondonBunchCelebrateMinistersPrimeExcessSoleNastyPrime MinisterRiotMayorsElitismHedonismChauvinism Author:Max Irons
“In England we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.” PeopleDoneHateInterestingEnglandEngagedReally InterestingMarmite Author:Eddie Redmayne
“I think now we just know way too much about our celebrities. It's not that interesting when you know that much about people.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayInterestingToo Much Author:Eva Mendes
“I mean I don't think it got me interested in acting. I think it might be what makes it so that I can have the idea of the variety of people in the world, different incomes. That helps. When you're going to play someone it's interesting and nice to see experiences that aren't like yours. But there's always the remarkable similarity of all people.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanI CanIdeasDifferentPlayHelpingMightInterestingActingNiceLike YouIncomeVarietyRemarkableSimilarity Author:Peter Sarsgaard
“I'm part of an industry that everybody wants to be a part of. I do hang out with a lot of sort of powerful, interesting people like Bella Freud or Jay Joplin or Tracey Emin. I'm part of that group of people. Brit artists who are doing things. That's what I do. Some of them happen to be aristocrats.” PeopleWantHappensArtistInterestingPowerfulGroupsIndustryHanging OutBrits Author:Duncan Roy
“I have come to accept that I'm a very spiritual person. However, it's interesting because part of me shies away from admitting that because I think that comes with assumptions. I think, when I was younger, I used to make judgments about people who were super spiritual. And I think it's a very personal subject.” PeopleThinkingPersonsSpiritualUsedInterestingAcceptingSubjectsJudgmentAssumptionAdmitting Author:Erin Davie
“I come from a great family and I was raised by wonderful parents. There is no question that I was given a lot of interesting and unique opportunities growing up...But I think people often misunderstand that I work as hard and want things just as badly as anybody else.” PeopleThinkingWantHardOpportunityGivenParentInterestingGrowing UpGrowingWonderfulUniqueRaisedGreat FamilyUnique OpportunitiesWonderful Parents Author:Abby Huntsman
“My advice to anyone who wants to join in on farming is diversify. Nature is diversified, and I know you'll always have a core thing that you'll really like, but hang stuff around the edges of it. It will make your place more interesting for people to come to, and it's a lot easier to sell something else to an existing customer.” PeopleKnowsWantStuffInterestingAdviceEasierSellsEdgesCustomersCoreFarming Author:Joel Salatin
“It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.” PeopleInterestingLonelinessUniversalCuresPropose Author:Douglas Coupland
“I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.” PeopleThinkingIndividualInterestingGroups Author:Douglas Coupland
“The most interesting people are never perfect.” PeoplePerfectInterestingMost Interesting Author:David McCullough
“The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall over. But when I draw or look at a painting, I go into a sort of overdrive and just see things differently than other people.” PeopleLooksSometimesFallInterestingFailingPaintingDrawsOrdinaryEverydayEveryday LifeInteresting ThingsOrdinary ThingsOverdrive Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi
“I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I've always thought that it's interesting to watch people work things out on stage.” PeopleWayMindShowsSeemsWould BeFeltInterestingAcceptingWatchesStageFoolInteresting Ways Author:Fiona Apple
“If I had interesting things to say, I would have been a speechwriter. I think it gets to musicians' heads a lot of the time. Just because people like your records doesn't mean what you have to say is going to be interesting.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanHas BeensInterestingRecordsLike YouMusicianInteresting Things Author:Aesop Rock
“People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through and it really helps you out.” PeopleIfsKindHelpingInterestingGriefPainfulAwfulVery Interesting Author:Kay Redfield Jamison
“I had always liked blind dates. If nothing else, it was an interesting way of discovering what people thought of you.” PeopleIfsWayInterestingBlindDiscoveringInteresting WaysThoughts Of YouBlind Date Book:Sleeping in Flame Source: Sleeping in Flame
“The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation,... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work.” PeopleFactsInterestingMovementHeroMetsConsequenceInternationalEastDisappearUsualRepresentativesMost InterestingNamelessDelegationPorto Author:Noam Chomsky
“It's so easy to pick up a camera, white balance, and shoot people having sex, but I don't think there's anything very interesting about it. You might get off, but that's it.” PeopleThinkingMightSexEasyWhiteInterestingBalancePicksCamerasVery InterestingHaving Sex Author:Sasha Grey
“I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be - there's a big literature of trailer-park, kitchen-table fiction that's just about goings-on in the lives of ordinary people - but my own tastes run toward stories that in addition to being good stories are set against a backdrop that is interesting to read and learn about.” PeopleTryingStoriesBigsRunningLiteratureMy OwnInterestingFictionEventsTasteOrdinaryTablesBe GoodKitchenParksThemeGroundedOrdinary PeopleGood StoryTrailersBackdropKitchen TableTrailer Park Author:Neal Stephenson
“The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books I sell, I think. It seems to have nothing to do with what I'm writing, but what degree of success I'm perceived to have. It's really weird, especially since I spent so much of my life covering people who are famous. It's interesting to actually have it happen to me on some level.” PeopleThinkingWritingBookSeemsHappensInterestingLevelsAmountDegreesNegativeSellsResponseRelatedCoveringReally Weird Author:Chuck Klosterman
“I feel like a lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsWritingPersonsIdeasAsksInterestingSubjectsInvolvedTerribleJournalismJournalistInterviewsPeersInteresting Ideas Author:Chuck Klosterman
“The thing that has always baffled me about people's perception of my writing is the sense that I'm a very controversial, opinionated, polarizing person. I feel like I write about things that I'm interested in, and I describe why they're interesting to me. I could be negative, I guess. It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good.” PeopleFeelsWritingPersonsInterestingTerribleEasierPerceptionNegativeControversialOpinionatedBaffledPolarizing Author:Chuck Klosterman
“When I talk with people, I don't even see what they are wearing . . . No, I recognize it if it's something particularly nice and interesting. I see the exception.” PeopleIfsInterestingNiceException Author:Miuccia Prada
“I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting.” PeopleBitsPerfectInterestingStepsCompositionSteps Forward Author:Larry Clark
“The thing that's interesting about storytelling is people will say, "How do I write a movie I can get sold in this category?" For God's sake, the first movie that you can get made will be your personal story, because nobody's heard it before.” PeopleWritingFirstsMadeI CanStoriesInterestingHeardSakeStorytellingCategoriesPersonal Stories Author:Joan Tewkesbury
“One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles.” PeopleProblemInterestingRolesGiftedNo ProblemInteresting ThingsSmall Roles Author:Woody Allen
“It's a historical fact that the Stasi did horrible things and that they monitored a lot of people in East Germany, but I find it very interesting to think about the importance of the Western secret services back then and still working today.” PeopleThinkingStillsFactsTodayInterestingSecretImportanceHistoricalWesternEastHorribleGermanyVery InterestingHorrible ThingsSecret ServiceHistorical FactsEast Germany Author:Christian Schwochow
“I've always wanted to be on a show that's well respected and had critical acclaim and that people like to watch, and at the same time find something that for me as an actor is interesting and challenging.” PeopleWellsShowsWantedActorsChallengesInterestingWatchesCriticalAcclaim Author:Mike Colter
“It's been kind of extreme - people either love it or they don't like it at all - and I think that's a good thing. It's my first art project where there's not a middle ground. I find it very interesting. But the negative feedback hasn't at all kept me from doing it, obviously. Because I haven't really gotten any negative feedback that I feel is really warranted.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFirstsKindArtInterestingMiddleHavensProjectsNegativeGood ThingsExtremesFeedbackVery InterestingMiddle GroundArt ProjectsNegative Feedback Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“I'm sure people are badmouthing me. I think one of the interesting parts about the criticism has been the tenor of "how dare he." How dare an insider speak critically about other insiders?” PeopleThinkingHas BeensSpeakInterestingCriticismDareInsidersTenors Author:Mark Leibovich