Ellen Burstyn Quotes

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

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

We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

I was in Rome this time for about three or four months, and I feel like, by the time I left, every single person in Rome had seen me at least 10 times riding my bicycle. When I first got there, it seemed like people were happy to see me and would say hello. And by the end, they were kind of bored of seeing me. And it was like, "Ugh, there he goes again".

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

I don't need to be told the same thing every day, every morning, same words.

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

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.

Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.

You get bored if you do the same thing too much.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring.

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

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

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.