Tom Lehrer Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.

I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row.

One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony.

If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.

I always knew that if I was ever going to perform something that I wrote in front of an audience, I was going to do the thing I most like to experience as an audience member, which is to be tricked.

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

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 hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.

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

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

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

I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.