Jeff Conaway Quotes

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

I'm bored. I'm bored with the kind of parts I get offered. I can do more.

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

Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing.

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

Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.

I don't have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years.

I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.

I'm sick of the treadmill.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

Actors get bored.

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

I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, 'Oh! We'll have something exactly like that.' It's very boring.

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

Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.

I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum.

If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.

I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day.

Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do.

I don't want to be totally repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life. I don't want to do that at all.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen.

I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.

You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.