You’ll do better work if you’re bored rather than busy.

I was an accountant in Chicago, and a friend of mine, Ed Gallagher, was in advertising. At 4:30 every day I’d be bored, and I would call him. He’d interview me.

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

Sit there and look pretty.

When I first came to New York, I was so bored. My friends were like, ‘Do a blog. It’s the hip thing to do for male models.’

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer...

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That’s just so not me.

Being busy is better than being bored. Bored left a long time ago. Busy is always around for me.

People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I’m extremely bored with parties.

If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don’t want to ever be that.

When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!

How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going...

I don’t want to learn in a classroom anymore. I want to travel and talk to people and learn that way. I want to learn as I go,gathering knowledge and not being rigorously tested on...

Once you live in New York, you can’t live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It’s so bourgeois. I get so bored.

For several years, I had been bored. Not a whining, restless child’s boredom (although I was not above that) but a dense, blanketing malaise. It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be...

Lucien studied the wine in his goblet. “You don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend. And among the faeries, lesser and High Fae alike, a firm hand is needed. We’re too powerful, and...

When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I’d have to figure out something to do.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

I don’t get easily bored. I’m not that kind of person.

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don’t let myself get bored. I just go surfing.

Actors get bored.

I’m getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.

Never believe a friend who offered you his friendship just because he was getting bored.

I’ve always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily.

Whatever movies I sign, they have to get me out of my comfort zone. Otherwise, I would get bored very easily.

… an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

I get bored easily.

You don’t command your plate to provide you with food and it does. And you don’t have to get bored if it doesn’t. Whatever has to drop into the plate must pass through your head!

I need some challenges in love or I’m bored.

Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.

I don’t like to work out, and I get bored easily.

I don’t know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it’s natural to experiment.

It was a very idyllic childhood, surrounded by utterly beautiful landscapes that I got very, very bored of when I hit my teens. But being on your own a lot and being bored is good...

I once inscribed the word “Ennui” backwards on my forehead, and I was so bored that I stared at it in the mirror for hours. And at the end of that time, I felt like...

A guilty conscience pushed me to try harder—which I did for what seemed like a tremendous amount of wasted time, staring bug-eyed at uncooperative pencils. What was missing? The answer seemed obvious—intense emotional incentive. But...

Thinking minds doesn’t get bored.

Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

Don’t let yourself get bored. Exist to question; question your existence.

I revisit old favorites like ‘Buffy’ and ‘Battlestar Galactica’ when I’m bored. I am obsessed with ‘Scandal.’ I love TV.

Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.

You get bored if you do the same thing too much.

I get bored pretty easily and I don’t want to get locked down in one profession.

There is a lot to do in life than to get bored with.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.