David Johansen Quotes

When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.

What's so fun about doing the same thing again and again? You can only slap the handcuffs on a guy so many times.

It's hard to do 'Monsoon' again and again and again.

I'm not good at doing the same thing over and over again.

I had the most boring office job in the world...I used to clean the windows on envelopes.

You don't want to get into doing the same thing, over and over again. I know I don't.

Do you know what it's like to run spellcheck for six hours? It's like a party in purgatory. A party in purgatory where all they have to drink is sugar-free Kool-aid, and the only game to play is Monopoly, and none of your friends show up.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

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 was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.

When I'm not working, I would kill to have some sort of creative outlet other than, say, a coloring book. And when I'm working, I want to do all those things I was griping about - you know, make a turkey-and-cheese sandwich, put it in a zip-top bag, and stick it in a lunch box right now!

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

The glamour wears off and it soon becomes a job

I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece here and a little piece there. There's hours and hours of waiting. And to me, that's as far away from real performance as you can get.

With all due respect to 'The Vampire Diaries,' doing the same thing, over and over again, for essentially five years straight, it really becomes laborious and tedious, and it becomes a job. You obviously find gratification in acting, but you're playing the same character. No matter how compelling it is, it starts feeling pretty monotonous.

I had been on the TV show 'Eight is Enough' for four years. Working on a show like that is like working in a factory.

I've enjoyed my time as an actor, but felt work was becoming repetitive.

I hate to do the same thing twice.

I find the idea of doing what you do over and over again to be incredibly boring.

I didn't want a desk job; I knew I'd get bored.

It's just a grind every single day.