'Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.
If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don't want to ever be that.
The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
It gets monotonous for an actor to repeat roles.
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.
A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.
I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.
