Paul Wesley Quotes

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.

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.

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.

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

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

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

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.

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.

It gets a bit boring talking about the same thing for a hundred years.

I find it quite unsettling if I'm doing the same thing that I did yesterday.

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

I hate to do the same thing twice.

I don't want to keep doing the same thing over and over for the rest of my life.

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

If you do the same thing all the time, it's not very challenging.

If I do the same thing each year, that feels like I am sat on a shelf, and mentally that wouldn't be wise.

My fear is getting stuck doing the same thing over and over.

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

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.

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.