I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

- Frank Gehry

It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.

- Julia Sawalha

On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

- Julia Louis-Dreyfus

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

- Joseph Conrad

A story about my life would be utterly dull.

- James McAvoy

I'm a dull person.

- John Updike

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

- Hilaire Belloc

England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.

- Gerald Scarfe

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

- Gertrude Stein

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

- Alfred Hitchcock

Reality really isn't as dull as it's cracked up to be.

- Estelle

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

- Edward Albee

It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really.

- Dave Rowntree

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

- Dean Acheson

I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often - dull.

- Campbell Scott

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

- Conor Oberst

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

- Charles Darwin

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

- Charles Bukowski

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

- Alfred Hitchcock