Hal Linden Quotes

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

It's really good to be forced to get away and try something else, find something that's exciting.

I love any project where I get to push myself and learn new things.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

I don't want to do something that I've done before; I can't see the point of it.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

A lot of people ask me, 'What is your goal now that you have done everything?' And I always say that my goal is to not be bored by what I do. The only way that I cannot be bored by what I do is if I play something and it's all new to me.

I worked very hard not to have average days. I never do the same thing twice.

I don't like doing the same thing over and over again, because I learn from being challenged.

I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.

I love the fact that I get something new to do almost every day and have new challenges.

It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.

I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.

I'm really a believer in being in situations that feel new and awkward and different. And I love that feeling of being in motion - that sense you find when you're traveling.

It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

I need to broaden my horizons.

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.