Quotes About Originality

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

Cause I won't repeat myself, the way I dress and look.

I don't like to repeat myself as an actor.

My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, 'intellectuals gone bad,' a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate.

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.

I don't want to repeat myself. I don't want to shoot 10 installments of 'Infernal Affairs.'

I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book.

I don't want to repeat myself.

I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.

Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing.

I always want to do things that really have to be done, something that's a challenge - and I'm trying not to repeat myself.

If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they're used up.

I try consciously to keep myself entertained and challenged to not repeat myself at all. Like, when I start a new book, my goal is to pretty much throw out what I've done and try something completely different that I think initially I cannot do.

Something that has been important to me is never to repeat myself, never to go back.

In my short career, I tend not to repeat myself. I have no interest in redoing something. Sometimes that makes people angry, and maybe it's not the best thing for me commercially. But it's the best thing for me artistically, and it's the best thing for my heart.

I always wanted to do something different with each film. So I guess that means that I wanted to not repeat myself. There has to be some kind of a new element in each project that I take up.

Think up your own way of speaking. When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework.

The drum records that I like are ones on which the drumming didn't repeat itself. The players didn't stick to a format or formula.

The music I should be doing is music that you haven't heard before - whether you like it or not. I don't want to just repeat.

I do not want to repeat myself with my roles.

I don't want to repeat myself as a director.