Martie Maguire Quotes

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony.

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.

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

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

As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

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

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

I think you find stories with fresh perspectives, and there can be a danger in the opposite way when you start getting too cynical and things just don't start seeming like stories, and things don't seem exciting anymore. It's like, 'Yep, this is my fourth caucus, and I know everybody and know everything and I am writing just to impress my friends.'

I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

When you do something eight times a week, you fall into those little places where sometimes things can get a bit stagnant. That's why I always welcome a new face on the stage.

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.

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

It's always nice for the judges and the audiences to have something a bit different so they don't always see and hear the same thing.

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

It's supposed to feel totally foreign [to play in a series], every single time. But, going back for another go at it is good, on the one hand, but it's also bad, on another hand, because your ideas dry up sometimes, and also you get lazy sometimes because you're around the same people.

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

Continuity is boring.

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

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

I'm not the kind of person that can do the same thing over and over and over, so that's why touring, playing in a different venue every night, in front of a different audience, is so rewarding, you know, because it always feels fresh.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.