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Nature & Animals Quote by Izabella Scorupco

"I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter"

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Domesticity is doing the quiet flex here: Scorupco frames “boring” as a charge she’s heard before, then calmly flips it into a declaration of taste. The line reads like a shrug at the culture that demands actresses stay interesting in the most public way possible - glamorous, restless, always in motion - while treating stability as a kind of aesthetic failure. By conceding the label up front (“I may be boring”), she disarms the judgment and controls the narrative. It’s not an apology; it’s a boundary.

The phrasing is tellingly plain, almost clumsy, like something said off-camera rather than polished for a magazine pull-quote. That unvarnished syntax gives it credibility: a celebrity refusing the rehearsed “having it all” script and choosing the smallest, most repeatable pleasure. “Wake up by my dog and then my daughter” is a stacked image of uncomplicated loyalty and intimate responsibility - affection you don’t have to audition for. The dog comes first, not because it outranks the child, but because it signals routine: the early-morning constant, the creature that makes a home feel inhabited before the day starts performing.

The subtext is also a gentle rebuke to fame’s economy of novelty. If the currency is constant reinvention, she’s saying she’d rather be rich in repetition. “Boring” becomes code for safe, sane, and self-chosen - a life built around who waits for you when the cameras aren’t.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Scorupco, Izabella. (n.d.). I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-may-be-boring-but-it-would-be-to-wake-up-by-my-55627/

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Scorupco, Izabella. "I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter." FixQuotes. Accessed February 1, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-may-be-boring-but-it-would-be-to-wake-up-by-my-55627/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-may-be-boring-but-it-would-be-to-wake-up-by-my-55627/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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Izabella Scorupco

Izabella Scorupco (born June 4, 1970) is a Actress from Poland.

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