Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Conroy

I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

Most Germans are aghast yet fascinated at the idea of a cannibal in their midst. This is not supposed to happen in a tidy, democratically ordered German society. And yet it did.

Lynn Coady

That's what fascinates me about these writers' retreats: You're in these small spaces with small groups of people, and all of the sudden, the spotlight is shining on you harder than it normally is.

And he was fascinated by computers, ... He even kept an old Commodore 64 in his office.

Matt Frewer

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend, and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the - the notion of chivalry.

Dan Jenkins

Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.

Errol Morris

A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'

Norman Mailer

There was no one ever in American life who was remotely like Truman Capote. Small wonder, then, if people are still fascinated by him.

Caterina Scorsone

Now most of 'Alice' isn't really a political social commentary, but I think a big message is here is that the culture we're involved in is fascinated with very quick fixes and instant gratification.

Juliet Landau

I've always wanted to do a period movie, to do something the turn of the century, and I'm really fascinated by that whole time period.

Christopher McQuarrie

I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.

Lorde

I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the concept of old money.

Ricky Gervais

I've always been fascinated with actors who have to be heroes, whereas I shy away from that,

Daniel Woodrell

I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.

I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.

Jon Favreau

I've always been fascinated by chefs and the worlds of chefs - what they do is incredibly cinematic.

Bob Denver

I've watched it on and off. I don't know why everyone is fascinated by it.

I've wanted one of these since I was a kid. This kind of plane always fascinated me.

I spent my childhood in northern New York State, and like many kids, bugs and other critters fascinated me.

Diane Setterfield

I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember.

John Connolly

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.

Joe Perry

I've been into guns ever since I was a little kid, and the ones that fascinate me most are the black powder guns that people used back in the 17 and 1800s.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do what they do. I'm fascinated by it, and I have such a respect for it.

Gary Hume

I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

Calista Flockhart

I'm Fascinated by women who aren't making a great impression on people. I think there's probably something there that is more than meets the eye.

Nastassja Kinski

I'm fascinated by older people, but I need young people.

Peter Capaldi

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

William Baldwin

I'm fascinated by each individual story. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, "How did this happen?

Kimbra

I'm so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

I like work. It fascinates me. I sit and look at it for hours.

Peter Greenaway

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.

Maggie Stiefvater

I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.

Jennifer Egan

I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back to fiction.