Cass Elliot Quotes

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

I always kept the fans happy. They always saw a different Rey, whether it was a mask, a design, a color. I never gave them the same thing twice and always kept them on their feet. They were always excited to see what Rey was going to bring to the table.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

Every project is a new challenge for an actor. If it's not, it's boring.

I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea.

I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.

I don't want there to be a typical episode of 'The Walking Dead.' I want to try to give people different things every week because that's what I dig.

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.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

I always feel like out of every session that I do, whether it's a record session or even a concert, I like to think that there was something in there that I didn't do before. That's my goal.

I think having a character piece is great. It will challenge you and be different.

I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be interesting when you're doing it?

Live shows have been going on for so long, can you really do something that's never been done before?

I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag.

A magic show and a concert are very similar in the way I like keeping things a mystery and not doing them the same way every time. The listener and the audience never know what's going to happen next.

I'm glad people get excited watching me play. Hopefully I show them something new each time I step on the court.

I have a lot of maneuvers in my back pocket, so to speak. And to me, the thing is to always surprise the audience so they're always seeing something new, and not just get stuck in the same rut.

I constantly want to do something new and surprise the audience.

What's challenging is to surprise the audience.

Be it in the movies I make or on stage, I think it's a trap to keep doing the same thing over and over again.

Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I'd be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn't like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.