When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.
For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.
Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.
I love heights. I love speed. I'm on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.
The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
Boredom and sexual desire are a potent and explosive combination, and people will certainly risk their lives to exit a grey and boring life.
Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
I was a mindless eater. I ate for comfort. I also ate out of boredom and habit.
Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.
I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.