Fascinated Quotes - Page 15

• One of the saddest sentences I know is "I wish I had asked my mother about that." Or my father. Or my grandmother. Or my grandfather. As every parent knows, our children are not as fascinated by our fascinating lives as we are.

  William Zinsser

  Mother, Children, Father

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• When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone conversation wherein he expressed the desire to be a feminine hygeine product.

  Dave Barry

  Interesting, Desire, Telephones

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.103, Ballantine Books

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• I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.

  Josh Gad

  Cat, Years, Singing

  "Josh Gad and Jason Winer Talk 1600 PENN, Creating the White House Family Comedy, Improvisation During Filming and Viewers’ Perception of the Characters". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 8, 2013.

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• All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Levels, Incentives, Break

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you'd be at a stoplight and you're with everybody; there's a homeless dude and some weird celebrity and a cop and someone who looks exactly like you. You're on foot and everyone is at street level and eye-to-eye. I think that's what's special about New York, because there's no hierarchy, there's no discrimination.

  Kevin Morby

  New York, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm fascinated with psychology, and with why a person walks the way they walk or why they walk into a room the way they do or why we are the way we are, and it's not exclusive to the psychology of a character.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Character, Psychology, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm fascinated by the First World War because it was supposed to be the war to end all wars, and it was the biggest conflagration that this particular planet had seen. There was a lot of talk about utopia and how it was possible, and then, because of these events that for one reason or another couldn't be stopped, the idea of utopia went out the window.

  Glenn Close

  War, Ideas, Events

  "Mia Wasikowska". Interview with Glenn Close, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 3, 2014.

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• Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me - I could make them up and learn bits and pieces of what was going on over time. There's something about it being always a step away that makes it more fun to chase.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Growing Up, Fun, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I took interest in Paris Hilton at one point and got fascinated with her voice.

  Jenny Hval

  Voice, Paris, Interest

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes and I ended up becoming fascinated with Eastern Religion, and ultimately it seemed to encompass the more abstract mind that I have.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Photography, Art, Class

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• I became fascinated with recording in an open room.

  Daniel Lanois

  Rooms

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• I am riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half pipe snowboarding. I am fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I am also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

  Lucy Walker

  Sports, Snowboarding, Surfing

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• My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Greatness, People, Challenges

  Yousuf Karsh (1962). “In Search of Greatness: Reflections of Yousuf Karsh”, University of Toronto Press

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• I swear, the bigger your muscles get, the duller you are. You become fascinated with carbs and protein and ripped abs and things that are just not interesting at all.

  Christian Bale

  Interesting, Protein, Bigger

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• I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff. It's the first thing I have to solidify whenever...I get into a character. The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.

  Guy Pearce

  Moving, Character, Voice

  Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com.

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• In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.

  Simon de Pury

  Song, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've played a different type of character in a different type of thing, for the most part. It's not like you can't mine tons of fascinating stuff from any character that you play, and I've always been fascinated with women and relationships, but this has been a completely different experience, for sure.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Character, Play, Different Experiences

  "Lizzy Caplan Talks MASTERS OF SEX, Her Real-Life Counterpart, Going to Work and Watching People Pretend to Have Sex, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. October 5, 2013.

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• I wasn't naturally a scientist, but I was always fascinated by how the world worked and why things were the way they were.

  Dallas Campbell

  World, Way, Scientist

  Source: collider.com

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• Man loves his own ruin. The cup is so sweet that though he knows it will poison him, yet he must drink it. And the harlot is so fair, that though he understands that her ways lead down to hell, yet like a bullock he follows to the slaughter till the dart goes through his liver. Man is fascinated and bewitched by sin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Men, Poison

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• I was really intrigued by them, became fascinated by them because they were asking questions that couldn't be answered almost, or were making statements that you couldn't quite understand. Like, 'I'm investigating things that begin with the letter M.' That took me through a whole stratosphere of possibilities, and doing a little research and discovered that the M is mercury.

  Johnny Depp

  Asking Questions, Littles, Mercury

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• Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual objects with great stories. I am fascinated by the stories.

  Jane Cleland

  Book, Trying, Antiques

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• I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.

  John Hyams

  Forever, Sound, May

  Source: collider.com

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• We've only had aircrafts for a hundred years, and yet look at us. So, I've become absolutely fascinated by this strange, bizarre world of airports, air travel and transportation. It's interesting.

  Dallas Campbell

  Airports, Years, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• Realizing that my surroundings were going to be built around me, the way that I performed, we helped the directors through the performance, to create the world that we were going to be seen in. I was very fascinated with that.

  Dennis Haysbert

  Directors, World, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I think people are fascinated with breasts that bounce. They are so used to seeing fake ones – people are confused.
  My breasts have a life of their own.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Confused, Thinking, People

  "Jennifer Lawrence: People are fascinated with bouncy boobs like mine" by Anna Francis, www.celebsnow.co.uk. January 04, 2014.

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