Tamzin Outhwaite Quotes

We're all amateur investigators. We scan bookshelves, we ogle trinkets left out in the open, we calculate the cost of furniture and study the photographs on display; sometimes we even check out the medicine cabinet.

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

I can be a bit nosey. I like a bit of gossip.

I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

Writers are nosy people; we are endlessly curious: we ask questions when we shouldn't - we peek around corners when we are least expected.

I realize I stare at everyone, especially when I'm walking down the street. I'm just a curious person.

Growing up, I feel like my character was so much about being a problem-solver and a truth-seeker and always needing to get to the bottom of everything.

Everyone is a bit nosey. It's like if you walk down the street and someone has their blinds open, you look in.

I tend to ask more questions than I should as an actor.

I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.

I'm probably, like, the nosiest person you'll ever meet. Not in a rude way, but I like to be in the know.

I'm just super nosy, I love trying to understand what's going on.

I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.

And I like people. I like to know what you're really up to. I'm a bit of a nosey busy body. Why do they do the things they do? Why are they prepared to do the things they do to get what they want? When? Where? Who?

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

My instincts for asking questions is to press but not to be a jerk about it.

I am a student of this business. I'm really interested in it. When I was younger, I was always the annoying one. What's that? What's that do? What is that called? Why aren't you doing this? I think it got very annoying.

I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I'm curious about something, I'll go quite far to satisfy my curiosity.

I think I was always a little sponge as a kid, and I was always looking for more information constantly.

You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self and view on the world. That's what great actors have, too.

I think for me I'm always... I find myself to be a very curious person when something interests me and I find that I'm attracted to that mystery.

I grew up with my grandfather, so I knew him really, really well. He was funny and opinionated and wonderful. He was fascinated by things and always curious.

I love to study people and pick apart what makes a person or character who they are. I never want to get complacent in that.

I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?' and they'll be like, 'Yeah, now let me read it.'