Pernell Roberts Quotes

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.

I'm a cliche.

I'm more boring and more conservative.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

'Downton Abbey' is just one cliche after another, and it is a really, really poor piece of drama. But that's only me talking. That's just my take on it.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I am one of the great army of mediocrity which constitutes the majority.

The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.

Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than you did yourself, and when it is their turn to speak, they repeat with great assurance something that they have heard other people say, as though it were their own invention.

Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.

How come all the harmless people were so lame? Maybe that was the definition of safe.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

I'm pretty boring in my real life.

It is a boring life if you stick to all the rules.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.