Anna Popplewell Quotes

If I don't try and bring variety in my appearances, I will get bored with films, so I can well imagine how bored the audience would get watching me.

I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.

I don't see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where's the challenge there?

If I can look at each character that I am given and create them in a different way from the last role, I'm happy.

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

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

I don't like to repeat myself as an actor.

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

I'm not the kind of person that can do the same thing over and over and over, so that's why touring, playing in a different venue every night, in front of a different audience, is so rewarding, you know, because it always feels fresh.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good.

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

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

Drama and comedy, to me, are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.

For me, if I'm completely honest, I've always loved playing Captain Hook, also because I've gotten a chance to play so many different variations of him, so I haven't just been playing the same guy day in, day out.

I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore.