Clive Owen Quotes

For me, it's very hard to train too much, just sparring, sparring, sparring. It's boring.

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

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

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.

I'm sick of the treadmill.

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

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

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

After doing a total of five years of 'Daily Grace,' you kind of get burned out on doing the same thing over and over again, so I am allowing myself to not have totally any specific structure.

There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.

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

Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring.

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

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

Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.

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

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

I am bored with it all.

When you do anything too long, you either wear it out or lose interest.

It's hard to do 'Monsoon' again and again and again.

Uniformity is not very interesting or sustainable - it's boring.

It's just a grind every single day.