Laurence Olivier Quotes

While I try and give as much energy, enthusiasm and detail to any work I do, if I keep coming back to it, to the same people year after year, there's an attachment. But you don't want anything to become comfortable.

As I get older, I'm more comfortable in my skin.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.

I mean, I suppose when I'm in London, I'm home so I'm more comfortable.

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.'

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

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

That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.

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

I was born and raised in Denver, went to school there, went to college there, and I've been on the same team for seven years, and I kind of found myself going through the motions a little bit.

When people ask where I'm from, I tell them Washington, because that's where I feel the most comforted by the people.

I'm boring as hell. I just sit around and talk philosophy.

When I first started, I was definitely reserved,. I was still trying to find myself.