Jamie Wyeth Quotes

Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.

As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.

I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.

I don't ever want to feel like my whole life is laid out before me and I know exactly what's gonna happen. That would be so boring.

The unknown is always interesting.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

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

I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

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

As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

What you know is always a little less attractive to you than what you don't know.

I see the world as an adventure thriller and a voyage of discovery. To me, all lives are lives of mystery and secrecy, and that's what I write about.

I like when people don't know what to expect.

The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It takes away from all my mystery, which, as I've told you before, is the most important thing between a man and a woman.

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