Quotes About Repetition

Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.

In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.

I think you kind of need to acknowledge that the reason why sequels do well is because people that loved the first one come back.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

I get really frustrated - actually, it almost makes me angry - when I see, sometimes, magazines will publish a musician's playlist. They'll go and they'll ask, I don't know, somebody from Aerosmith or whoever, Coldplay, to list their five favourite albums. And it's always the same stuff!

When Americans come to London they usually say how much they love the history, the tradition, the splendid tumpty-tum of things whose very repetition has become their point.

My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.

Yes I agree shows sometimes go over dramatic, hit tracks get repeated, but then why not also talk about the kind of interesting shows that the medium is churning?

I've been to Sardinia about 10 times because my wife, my daughter and I used to go every year with another family. We rented the same house each time in Villasimius in the southern part of the island, and always went to the same two beaches and same three restaurants.

It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.

As far am I'm concerned, I don't listen to radio anymore. They play the same ten songs over and over again, so why would I?

It was Christopher's brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take, and the audience gets bored with seeing it ten times, you know, over and over again.

I love 'Starship Troopers.' I've seen it ten times.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

When you are successful, there is this tendency to repeat the elements that we believe have worked in a certain film. Then it becomes formulaic, and there is no getting back.

Humor has the tendency to be funny once. If I tell you a joke, we're going to have a big laugh. But the second time I tell the joke, it's going to be a bit strange, and the third time you're going to ask if there's something wrong with me. So I am very cautious with jokes, but there is a lightness in my work.

As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.

With major films costing hundreds of millions of dollars to make, Hollywood is an industry that tends to repeat patterns when they make money.

All we see is gym, tennis court, and bed.

I have to live with what I say, or don't say, tens of thousands of times a game.

I love high tea, but I think it's very repetitive in terms of what's on the stand.

Minecraft has a terrible sound engine. Imagine a looping sound file that plays for two seconds and then just starts over.