Rik Mayall Quotes

Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing.

We are ever evolving and never repeat ourselves.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Every time, I try to make something different.

I wouldn't want to make the same record over and over again or look the same or be the same. I think that's just human life in general, though.

There'd be no merit to replicating something, to repeating something. As artists and as musicians, you wanna continue to go in different directions and develop.

I want to experiment; I want to keep growing. I didn't want to just sit back and rest on my haunches and do the things I knew I could do for a while.

Every day I wake up and that’s my goal, to be on a constant quest for knowledge and do something different, being unique and being uncommon.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

Life is a work in progress.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

It's no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It's always changing. I'm changing. The target keeps moving. That's the beauty of it.

I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.

We need to look to the future. You can't come up with new things unless you constantly forget the past. There's no reason to keep wearing the same pair of pants.

I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

I don't want to limit myself as a writer. Tastes change, and I want to keep my eye on the future.