I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.
Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.
You will not find me repeating a character or carrying similar mannerism in different films.
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone.
I think some superstars feel they get trapped in their established screen persona over and over again. That's what they get hired to do.
Acting's all about stepping out of the box, so I don't want to go to work every day and play Cassie Scerbo at all.
It's a luxurious complaint to have as an actor, but playing the same character for many years can become routine.
Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.
Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me.
It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.
Whatever the reasons that I turn things down, I'm always happy when there's a good result, and I can enjoy it as a movie, you know? I don't feel like, 'Oh man, that was really good. I should have done it.' You have to make the decisions you have to make, whether it has to do with your family or repeating a character or whatever it is.
After I left 'Laverne & Shirley,' I got a ton of offers to play the goofy guy next door, and there were a couple of series that I was offered that turned out to be successful series, but it was too close to what I'd done on my series, and I was really glad I didn't take it.
The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.
I think that the worst thing as an actor is to fall into a monotony with characters.
I'd never want to repeat a character - once done, it's of no interest to me.
I feel lucky that I always have a number of films to choose from. I would like to come out of my comfort zone while doing various roles, and I don't want to keep repeating my characters.
If you get on a TV show that's successful, odds are that you're playing the same character for as many years as the show is running, which can be its own blessing, but it can also be a curse because you're playing the same thing and that can be tiresome.
A lot of the time, I won't read the script until my second or third audition just 'cause a lot of the scripts are the same and the characters are the same.
