#boring

Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire. (The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.)" (Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme, 1738) ↗

— Voltaire

#dullness #restraint #writing #secret

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television? ↗

— Bud Abbott

#after #boring #costello #gets #guy

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies. ↗

— Asia Argento

#action movies #boring #did #europeans #i

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring. ↗

— Dario Argento

#boring #else #everything #life #limit

I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#body #boring #boring things #hair #i

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#boring #going #more #nothing #old

Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#boring #call #disney #emulate #hit

I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#boring things #charging #come #creating #fascinating

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#boring #fingernails #i #never #off

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be. ↗

— Christian Bale

#being #bored #boring #i #inherited