Owen Wilson Quotes

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

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

I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

Constant repetition dulls receptivity.

You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.

Everything gets old if you do it often enough.

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 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.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

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

The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.

You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

It gets a bit boring talking about the same thing for a hundred years.

I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.