If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

That’s probably the most boring conversation you could hear – an actor talk about politics. I won’t go there.

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There’s no joy of discovery in what you’re doing if that’s your strategy.

Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan.

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn’t speak English and I couldn’t speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations – that’s why we got married really quickly.

Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month’s manual should be out of date

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

But I won’t bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won’t make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I’m becoming so sensible!

I am boring. I am boring!

According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being ‘like everyone else’ for ‘everyone else’ is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and ‘stand out’ in whatever way their talents allow.

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

You don’t have to know everything in the world. We aren’t supposed to. It makes you boring in mixed company if you can’t be interested and ask questions of other people.

think a lot of people knew I was into healthy eating and exercising. When Disney approached me with this [Pass the Plate] I was really excited about it because I love to cook. It’s a great message to send to kids that there are so many different ways to eat really healthy foods. It doesn’t have to be boring and blah all the time.

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: ‘Why not try writing a novel?’ partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother’s family.

I hate just showing up, hitting a mark, doing your work, and going home. It’s very boring. But being part of the creation of the whole thing is very exciting.

Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.

Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.

For someone who’s made it clear that her life is superior to every other student’s at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.

I’m really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. (on Euro 2004)

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

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

…somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)

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

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don’t realize it. It’s very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don’t go to a movie hoping it’ll change my life.

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.

People’s destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they’re all alike, and they’re all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you’re one in a million. You’re happy—

I simply find it boring to walk around like everybody else. I find it really great to stand out and do something special.

Imagine a city where graffiti wasn’t illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall – it’s wet.