Quotes About Repetition

You spend a couple million dollars running for Congress, people get tired of seeing your face.

I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.

Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.

Whenever you listen to a CD or an album, it gets tiresome hearing the same thing over and over and over again.

I don't like to do the same songs every night for a week. I just... it's boring and tiring and frustrating basically.

It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday.

Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.

When you win the title, you have a great few days, and then it's gone; you're already looking forward to the next season.

I'm not expecting much work in Hollywood, to be honest. People stick to film because they tend to get offered the same roles over and over again, and it's safe. But I'm not interested in doing that.

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

You know how you toilet paper and egg somebody's house? I did it, right? But I did it back-to-back nights, Saturday and Sunday. They called the police. Good thing nobody got arrested but that was something embarrassing and stupid. Why would you do the same house twice? It was ridiculous.

I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.

I love to sew. But when it's something that's being repetitive over and over and over again, it takes a toll.

That moment is the one we still repeat here, over and over again, the ordinary, everyday wickedness of turning away.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

When I kissed him goodnight he said, Again! and I kissed him again.

A woman I knew was so attached to the idea of having a terrible secret, she told me the same secret three times, each time as if for the first time.

But it felt so good, I kept doing it.

For the past two years, I had coasted along these waters and each year ended the same. With me returning alone.

It is sometimes necessary to repeat what we all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location, and avoid originality.

If you want to learn the secrets of any performer, see his show twice. Then you'll notice how much of what seems improvised truly is.

Two aphorisms I advocate and live by: 1) "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." (Actually, this is a common mis-quotation from the source, George Santayana, who wrote specifically in Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense from his book, The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." 2) "NO religion can stand up to two words: PROVE IT!" (Source unknown).