Sonny Bono Quotes

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

We're all shocked by new ideas, and we're less shocked when we hear them again. And less shocked when we hear them a third time.

If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.

I don't like the idea of seeing a movie and it feels comfortable because you've heard it before.

I was in Rome this time for about three or four months, and I feel like, by the time I left, every single person in Rome had seen me at least 10 times riding my bicycle. When I first got there, it seemed like people were happy to see me and would say hello. And by the end, they were kind of bored of seeing me. And it was like, "Ugh, there he goes again".

I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.

If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.

Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.

Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.

You have to push the boundary, do something that people haven't seen before, because then it is exciting for them.

I like something with a really great storyline, characters, and concept. I like doing things that are new and cutting edge.

I never do the same thing twice.

I love that sense of discovery. You're experiencing something for the first time, and your parents aren't in on it, previous generations aren't in on it. It has a chance to belong to you and your generation in a way that nothing has. If 'Pacific Rim' is a fraction of that, I would be very proud.

You always wonder what's going to happen in a Brock Lesnar match, but if you see Brock every week, it's not as special.

The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

Exotic novelty. My statement to [people] is always, well, set this picture in your home town, is it still an interesting picture? Or is it just exotic? Would I care about this same picture minus its exoticism?

I suppose each project is a new thing, so there's all this excitement and nerves about this new thing. Every single thing is like a new thing, so it's never what I expect. I don't know what to expect for the next thing. There are always different people. It's interesting.

Repetition is the death of magic.

I want to go out there and do some different things that people are like, "Wow. That's crazy. Why didn't I think of that?"

People always get used to beauty though.

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.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.