Daniel Handler Quotes

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

I'm bored way too easily. I'm staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

Anyway, I'd get bored with just doing music!

Audience will get bored if just one kind of films will continue to get made.

It is so boring when you have seven days without a game.

Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It's time for people to do something else.

I didn't take a lot of the videos seriously; making videos was one of the most tedious things that you can imagine.

I needed to entertain myself at home nights... I got a jar of bubbles.

If I don't try and bring variety in my appearances, I will get bored with films, so I can well imagine how bored the audience would get watching me.

Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I'd be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn't like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.

I mean, sleeping with the same woman, night after night. Boring!

It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.

"I am bored" generally means "I am boring."

Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues but also the advertising inserts that fall on the floor. Boredom gives you half a mind to get a gun and go berserk in the local shopping centre, and you know where this is going. Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf.

It's a sin to bore people.

O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!

I mean its a weekly occurrence that somebody will complain that Top Gear was on last night - and you just sit back and wait for the complaints. But if you start to pay attention to everyones concerns, you end up with something bland and boring. So you sort of have to ignore everybody in order to do the show how we want to do it.

It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of doing it in one particular genre.

Beware of creating tedium!

You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.