Repetitive Work Quotes

Once I had left 'Twin Peaks' and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, 'No, no, we can't do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.' I'm like, 'No. I've already done it, and it worked, so I don't understand what you're saying.'

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

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 don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.

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

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

I had the most boring office job in the world...I used to clean the windows on envelopes.

You never say never, but I don't think I'd want to do a long-running series.

As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.

I would have been content with still playing Inmate #1. I worked on every prison movie made, from 1985 to 1991. I would go from movie to movie to movie.

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

There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.

I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible. The more successful you become, the more you become a product of something that generates money. Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

We'd become lazy with 'Top Gear,' doing six or seven shows a series.

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I've enjoyed my time as an actor, but felt work was becoming repetitive.

A lot of times in our jobs, we go day-to-day, we're in a routine, we sometimes become robots.

From working with Ralph Lauren, I started to understand what it meant to build a brand. There were times when I was working there that it seemed so repetitive. At the time, I didn't understand what was happening. But when I stepped out of it, I realized what he was doing was achieving a signature look and reiterating that. That's why when you think about a polo shirt you think about Ralph - he owns that garment.

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.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

Throughout my time working in restaurants, I developed an illogical dread of some basic kitchen tasks. None of them - picking and chopping parsley, peeling and mincing garlic, browning pans of ground meat - were particularly difficult. But at the scale required in a professional kitchen, they felt Sisyphean.