John Morrison Quotes

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

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

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

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

In 'Taxi,' I kept doing the same scene for three years. I was underused.

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 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.

Things happen in your life, and then you can write something else instead of the same three topics - like, how many times can we write about the clubs?

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'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore.

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

If I sat around thinking about acting all day, I'd lose my mind.

I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.

I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row.

I love wrestling, but now wrestling is a job, it's my livelihood. Sometimes the job takes over and you forget to have fun and you forget to be creative and try new things.

I always say the wrestlers provide the music and the announcers write the lyrics. You have to feel what you're seeing and experiencing to write the best lyrics.

I was a writer before I was a wrestler when I was in the WWE.

Touring can be quite a dull life.

For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.

I've always liked being on the performance end of it. I've come up with different ideas, but as far as being a creative writer, I'm not sure about that. I've always liked the performance end of it and wrestling, getting in the ring in front of a live crowd.

If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you're sort of writing the same song over and over again.