Chris Cleave Quotes

Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?

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

I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.

When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.

They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

Dynamic change is always my favorite thing. As soon as I feel like I'm doing all of the same stuff over and over again, I'm bored and sad.

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

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

I just don't want to be one of those guys that's stuck fighting the same opponents again and again.

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

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.

You know, I feel like if I don't change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of.

If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.

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 think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.

I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.

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

If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

I don't like the same old thing all the time.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.