Frank Auerbach Quotes

Someone asked me about how it feels to wear the same costume every day and whether it gets tired or boring, but the good thing about it is that you know what to expect, every day.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

We all have a great time. And then I go to bed, get up and do it all over again. I like my life.

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I'm living an ordinary life.

No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.

I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.'

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

What a day-to-day affair life is.

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.

Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I like to pay attention to everything I come across, including things that evoke the uncanny or the mysterious.

I go from day to day and game to game.

I'm around my father all of the time, so the things that people see as distracting are things I've seen for years on a daily basis. It's second nature to me.

I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

I'm very prescriptive about my routine. Almost nothing changes: I have the same meal - pasta with Bolognese sauce - between shows; the person who dresses me stands on the same side every time; I take the same route to the stage. I'm very OCD about these things, as most actors are.

Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze. "Yeah," I say. "Why?" I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be.

I was in Rome this time for about three or four months, and I feel like, by the time I left, every single person in Rome had seen me at least 10 times riding my bicycle. When I first got there, it seemed like people were happy to see me and would say hello. And by the end, they were kind of bored of seeing me. And it was like, "Ugh, there he goes again".

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.