Jay DeMarcus Quotes

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.

If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.

#1 Never Get Used to Anything.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

I don't want to keep doing the same thing over and over for the rest of my life.

If you win games, at the top, there's no pressure to change. You change when you have to change. You change when you don't win anymore.

If you just sit on what you've created, chances are you're not going to be around much longer.

If you do the same thing all the time, it's not very challenging.

Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I'd be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn't like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.

Right after college, I participated in the Miss India contest and then went on to pursue modelling, as that seemed like the logical next step. But pretty soon, I started to feel stagnant in that profession.

Sometimes, guys are in a slump, or you feel like you're not doing anything with the company, and I felt like that for years. But it can all change.

. . . escape is easier than change.

A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.

Personally, I've decided to stop evolving.

If you can do something with your eyes closed, it is time to try something new.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

No one should let themselves get used to anything.