Quotes About Repetition

In filming, you're waiting - you're waiting for lights, you're waiting for people to set things up - and when you're not waiting, you're repeating.

I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece here and a little piece there. There's hours and hours of waiting. And to me, that's as far away from real performance as you can get.

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.

I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.

So many of us live our lives on autopilot. We wake up, go to work, have dinner, go to sleep... repeat.

We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.

I don't think you can ask anybody in any walk of life to do anything at a championship level without doing it over and over and over and over and over again in preparation.

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.

I like technology, but the blockbuster games use it for the same thing over and over again.

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

I don't want to play the same character seven times. I think people would probably get bored of it.

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

Acting's boring.

Sometimes, I put a couple of mannequins on the edge of the box and do these things called bounce balls. You pass against it, and it comes back; you take a couple of touches 'round the mannequins and shoot.

For me, to see the ball go in once or twice, it breeds confidence.

What brings people down is the same thing over and over.

Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD... over and over again.

I will be a broken record for justice.

I saw 'Brooklyn' so many times.

I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.

A lot of fashion photographers will do the same sort of image for many years; it's easier to be successful if you do that.

In 'Scream 2', they have this discussion about how sequels always suck.

You want to bring it every day. But if you have a bad day in the theatre, a couple of hundred people see it. That sucked; we'll get back to it. You have a bad day on film, it's just on DVD for the rest of your life.