Bothered Quotes

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it.

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is.

I don't get bothered by people saying what they say. I'm a happy person and I'm happy with my looks. I'm not an insecure person. I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else.

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.

I've done nudity in lots of things before. It's something that's never particularly bothered me.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.