Johnny Mercer Quotes

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

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

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

I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

I don't want to return to places and sing the same songs a second time.

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

I don't have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years.

Always the same thing.

I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.

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.

I just don't want to play the same guy again over and over.

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.

I'm not happy with just repeating myself.

I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.

I'm sick of the treadmill.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

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