"I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about"
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The specificity of his examples matters, too. Travel, sports, work: three arenas where commitment shows up differently - curiosity, discipline, purpose - but all share the same underlying posture: an appetite for experience. By listing broad, accessible pursuits, Stevenson avoids sounding elitist; he’s not demanding rarefied passions, just proof that a person is awake to their own life.
There’s subtext in the repetition of “I like.” It’s relational, not aspirational. He’s describing what he wants to be around, suggesting that excitement is contagious and that companionship is less about matching identities than matching voltage. For an actor of his generation, who’s moved through fame’s cycles and the long middle stretch of a career, it also lands as a survival strategy: stay close to people who still care. Enthusiasm becomes a hedge against cynicism, a way of choosing vitality without making it a self-help slogan.
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"I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-people-who-are-enthused-about-things-they-163174/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.







