Boredom quotes

“What else are you gonna do on a Saturday? Sit in your fuckin' armchair wankin' off to Pop Idols? Then try and avoid your wife's gaze as you struggle to come to terms with your sexless marriage?”
Danny Dyer - Tommy Johnson

“Retirement is an ongoing, relentless effort in creativity. You can try yoga, like to cook, bought some plants, took classes in Mandarin. Believe me, I've tried everything. I just know there's a hole in my life and I need to fill it... soon.”

Robert De Niro - Ben

“Has it ever occurred to you Wally that the process that creates this boredom that we see in the world now may very well be a self-perpetuating, unconscious form of brainwashing, created by a world totalitarian government based on money, and that all of this is much more dangerous than one thinks? And it's not just a question of individual...” (continue)(continue reading)
Himself - Andre Gregory

Wanda, do you have any idea what it's like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of, of doing the wrong thing, of saying to someone "are you married?" and hearing "my wife left me this morning", or saying, uh, "do you have children?" and being told they all burned to death on Wednesday. You see, Wanda,... (continue)(continue reading)
John Marwood Cleese - Archie Leach

“Most men, they'll tell you a story straight through. It won't be complicated, but it won't be interesting either.”
Albert Finney - Ed Bloom - Senior

“- Tyler: What's wrong?
- Rosie: Boredom, Tyler. Boredom - that's what's wrong. And how do you beat boredom, Tyler?... Adventure. Adventure, Tyler.”
Charles Martin Smith - Tyler
Brian Dennehy - Rosie

“Dear World. I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.”

George Sanders

“- Edward: Kevin, you wanna play scissors, paper, stone again?
- Kevin: No!
- Edward: Why not?
- Kevin: 'Cause it's boring. I always win!”
Johnny Depp - Edward Scissorhands
Robert Oliveri - Kevin

“-Grug: Three days is not forever!
-Eep: It is with this family.”
Nicolas Cage - Grug
Emma Stone - Eep

“- Edith Bratt: I love Wagner's Rheingold.
- Robert Gilson: Christopher finds those too long.
- Christopher Wiseman: No, I don't.
- Robert Gilson: Well, nobody blames you. It shouldn't take six hours to tell a story about a magic ring.”
Lily Collins - Edith Bratt
Patrick Gibson - Robert Gilson
Tom Glynn-Carney - Christopher Wiseman

“There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.”
Peter Cushing

“To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London.”
Theo James

“- Honore Lachaille: I have to tell you... your parents bore me to death.
- Gaston Lachaille: Me too.
- Honore Lachaille: But I've known them longer, so they've been boring me longer.”
Maurice Chevalier - Honoré Lachaille
Louis Jourdan - Gaston Lachaille

“- Madame Alvarez: How was Monte Carlo?
- Gaston Lachaille: It was a bore!
- Madame Alvarez: One has to be as rich as you are, Gaston, to be bored at Monte Carlo.”
Hermione Gingold - Madame Alvarez
Louis Jourdan - Gaston Lachaille

“I think you are the most annoying person I have ever met. I hate being with you, I hate looking at you... And if I had my way I would never - see you - again.”

Idina Menzel - Dinah Ratner

“Doldrums. Doldrums. Eviler than the Devil. Boredom makes men to villains, and the water goes quick, lad, vanished. The only med'cine is drink. Keeps them sailors happy, keeps 'em agreeable, keeps 'em calm.”
Willem Dafoe - Thomas Wake

“Another one of the new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors, nothin'. Nothin' to do but throw rocks at tin cans, and we gotta bring our own tin cans.”
Earl Holliman - Cook

“This is just a dirty little village in the middle of nowhere. Nothing that happens here is really important.”
Otto Kruger - Judge Percy Mettrick

“- Dixon Steele: You annoy me!
- Laurel Gray: If I do, it isn't intentional.”
Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele
Gloria Grahame - Laurel Gray

“- Mendez: If we shoot, we'll break twelve years of peace!
- Governor Kolp: Yes, it has been rather boring hasn't it?”
Paul Stevens - Mendez
Severn Darden - Governor Kolp

“- Sherlock Holmes: You've painted me as a hopeless dope addict just because I occasionally take a five-percent solution of cocaine.
- Dr. Watson: A seven-percent solution...
- Sherlock Holmes: Five percent. Don't you think I'm aware you've been diluting it behind my back?
- Dr. Watson: As a doctor, as well as your friend, I strongly disapprove...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Stephens - Sherlock Holmes
Colin Blakely - Dr. Watson

“If I didn't catch fish all day, I'd find a way to kill you.”
Matthew McConaughey - Baker Dill

“Say something, or I shall get bored. And when I get bored, I get hungry!”

Cate Blanchett - Kaa

“Give the people what they want... old-fashioned apocalyptic porn.”
Benjamin Kanes - Young Birdman

“I hate beauty. Do you realize how boring it gets looking at beauty day in and day out?”

Peter O'Toole - Governor Anthony Cloyden Hayes