Quotes About Repetition

In my real life, I wear a T-shirt, gray or white, and the same pair of jeans. Literally, the same pair of jeans every day.

I'm normally late, so I just kind of throw on the sort of thing that's at hand. And then I'll go through phases of wearing the same thing again and again and again - and my wardrobe is mainly about black and white, so it goes together. I'll play with certain elements, but I don't really think about it too much.

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.

I'm a big fan of 'Prison Break' - I've watched it eight times.

I can watch SportsCenter on a loop, like, five times in a row until my girlfriend is like, 'Seriously? It's the same highlights!' It just brings me peace, I think. Any kind of game - college basketball, college football, obviously anything pro.

As a producer, when you get to work with a filmmaker who is joyful about making films, you want to do it again and again.

As a director, I've wanted to have adventure in my life, creative adventure. I think it's partly because I grew up, basically from age six to 26, mostly on television series where the producers find something that works and then do it over and over and over again.

You do the shows, you get on the bus, you go to sleep, you wake up and you're in a different place, and then you do it all again.

Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.

Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.

There is this awkward discomfort when you're doing comedy on camera because people aren't allowed to laugh so that they can get a clean take and you're doing the same thing over and over again.

Definitely that's the worst, to discover that something you're doing has already been done.

I think nothing ever ends on Disney Channel. They keep playing it.

Once I established myself doing crazy things and being extreme, people want to see it all the time.

At any period of an actor's life, it's fairly likely that they'll be cast in ways that are reminiscent. That's the way it goes.

We like songs that are familiar.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

You're using the same body parts over and over again, eventually there will be wear and tear.

Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation.

As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.

When you're making a film, it's a very technical process. You do things over and over again, and you have to hit your marks and your light and all that stuff.

My favorite kind of acting scenes, or at least where I think people shine the brightest, are odes to Meisner technique scenes where people are face-to-face, and it's almost like a repetition exercise.