Repetitive Role Quotes

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.

I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.

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.

Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again.

With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.

I like playing the same person over and over again. I've done shows for over a year on Broadway, and I never get bored.

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.

Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.