Quotes About Originality

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.

I bought a guitar when I was twenty. But I didn't write a song until I was 25 or 26. I never learned to play others songs. I learned to play my own songs while I was learning how to make them better.

I'm here to break boundaries, man. That's all. I'm here to be the first so that the people after me don't have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.

We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.

I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.

I don't like to write the same song twice.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.

The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.

Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.

I really don't want to make the same film twice, so I am conscious of going after material that is significantly different to anything I've done before.

I try to make my box as big as it can be because I never want to do the same thing twice.

If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.

I don't do the same show twice. I've never done a show word for word.

I don't see myself directing the same movie twice.

We never do the same set twice.

You don't want to play the same role twice.

I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.

I worked very hard not to have average days. I never do the same thing twice.

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.