Michael Hogan Quotes

Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

With all due respect to 'The Vampire Diaries,' doing the same thing, over and over again, for essentially five years straight, it really becomes laborious and tedious, and it becomes a job. You obviously find gratification in acting, but you're playing the same character. No matter how compelling it is, it starts feeling pretty monotonous.

I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in. For me, television is where it's at. You get to play a character for a long period of time, and you get to dig deep. It's a home to go to.

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

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.

I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, 'The Vampire Diaries.' And I guest starred on a show called 'Kickin' It' on Disney.

In 'Taxi,' I kept doing the same scene for three years. I was underused.

I don't want to be totally repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life. I don't want to do that at all.

I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

It gets a bit boring talking about the same thing for a hundred years.

When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

I've been on the 'Tonight Show' a million times, and I'd be embarrassed to do the same thing more than once.