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Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring. -- Denis Leary
I don't want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again. -- Alexa Vega
I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested. -- Charisma Carpenter
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. -- Georges Rouault
I don't ever want to do the same character twice. Variety excites me. -- Priyanka Chopra
For 15 years, I've been playing the same character-which is myself-and I'm bored with 'myself'. -- Elle Macpherson
War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character. -- Herman Melville
I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice. -- Brion James
I don't want to play the same character seven times. I think people would probably get bored of it. -- Anna Popplewell
I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic. -- David Walton
I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that. -- Abigail Breslin
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious. -- Peter Dinklage
We all know the Internet didn't explode until it became a commercial enterprise. Space communication will probably have the same characteristic. -- Vint Cerf
For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors -- Lloyd Bridges
I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television. -- Taraji P. Henson
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. -- L. Sprague de Camp
It's easy to get stagnate, if you play the same character. In New Moon, I felt like I was going a little bit deeper. -- Robert Pattinson
I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice. -- Jessica Chastain
I've written a lot about southern California, but I don't use the same characters. Leave the people in the songs in the songs, is my philosophy. -- John Darnielle
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. -- Lucy Punch
Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven. -- Brigham Young
I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do. -- Guy Pearce
Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character. -- Julius Bate
The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths. -- Robert Aldrich
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. -- Saoirse Ronan
Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children. -- David A. Bednar
As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention. -- Thomas Huxley
Although just being employed as an actor is a big thing, I'm not sure I'd be satisfied playing the same character for 30 years; it's not why I want to do this for a living. -- Jamie Dornan
I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing. -- Victor Garber
It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me. -- Rani Mukerji
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character. -- Andrew Coyle Bradley
When you're doing lots and lots of episodes and you're playing the same character, it's great because you really get to know the character and it becomes a really fast style and you find subtleties in it. -- Misha Collins
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. -- Taraji P. Henson
The point of acting is to hide yourself and get lost in character. To play the same character in eighteen movies would be defeating the purpose I believe so I try to keep a little bit of diversity. -- Columbus Short
Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was? -- Charles Kingsley
I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next. -- Doug TenNapel
My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something. -- George R. R. Martin
When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and two-thirds of your work is done because you've built on that work for so many years. -- Lisa Edelstein
Our heavenly bodies are going to be similar to our present ones, only better. We'll look enough like we do now to recognize and identify each other. We're going to have a lot of the same characteristics that we have now. -- David Berg
To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting. -- Ian McDiarmid
If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again. -- Ray Romano
Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene. -- John Slattery
You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck. -- Bubba Smith
I loved playing Walternate because he was completely the same character, version 1985, and then it developed in such a different way, physically and mentally. So, to be able to play that, in the same television series, as playing the other ones was a fantastic gift for me. -- John Noble
I feel blessed that I am able to play really dark guys in a business where they usually want you to play the same character over and over. Poor Michael Rapaport will being playing white homeboys till the day he dies. That's not the kind of career I want. -- Ron Eldard
I never think about the next movie. I always think about the situation I'm in now, but you do think about an arc someone can go. I love Johnny Depp, I love 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' but I never wanted to play the same character over and over again. -- Alex Pettyfer
Plot and character are virtually the same thing. -- Daniel Keys Moran
Character and fate are two words for the same thing. -- Novalis
Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are. -- Alfred Molina
George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar. -- Peter Mayhew
Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing. -- Marcello Mastroianni
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception. -- Novalis
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice. -- Colleen McCullough
I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting. -- Clive Owen
I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character. -- Vin Diesel
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
You and the character just become the same person in a way. There isn't really a character; it's just you creating this illusion. -- Andrew J. West
I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation. -- Giancarlo Esposito
I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters. -- Thomas Lennon
I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar. -- Josh Hartnett
In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise. -- James Dashner
I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done a lot of period pieces - but I've never had to play the same type of character too much. -- James McAvoy
Fate and character are different names for the same idea. -- Hermann Hesse
Character and fate are two words for the same thing -- Novalis
Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune. -- Herbie Hancock
Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him. -- John Slattery
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice -- Colleen McCullough
When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun. -- Arthur Phillips
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels. -- George Henry Lewes
Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character. -- Aasif Mandvi
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. -- Donald Miller
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference. -- John Irving
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
I certainly don' think I could've played the character [Idi Amin] the same way without being in Uganda. I loved working in Uganda. -- Forest Whitaker
Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit. -- Richard M. Nixon
The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film. -- Harrison Ford
The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader? -- Len Wein
It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference. -- Steven Heighton
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
I got spoiled on 'Breaking Bad.' Playing the same guy for four or five seasons, you get to really explore who the character is. -- Aaron Paul
If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same. -- Stacy Hawkins Adams
People just project their idea of my character on to me and they just seem to assume that I'm the same, when, in reality, I'm not -- Robert Pattinson
Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always felt completely confident - it's like in a feature film, knowing your principle character is extremely well-cast. I had that same confidence in Clive [Oppenheimer]. -- Werner Herzog
All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character. -- Rudolf Steiner
There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character. -- Maria Jane McIntosh
It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same. -- Isadora Duncan
Being nice doesn't necessarily mean you're weak. You can be nice and be strong at the same time. That's a character trait that we need more in Washington. -- Shelley Moore Capito
A lot of people expect to see the same type of character that they see on the field off the field, and that throws them for a loop. -- Terrell Owens
Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character. -- Shannon L. Alder
Not knowing what's happening, from script to script, as an actor and as a character, lends itself to the same tension and anxiety of not knowing what's happening. -- Matthew Davis
In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change. The character at the end is not the same as he was at the beginning. He's changed-psychologically, maybe even physically. -- Robert Towne
Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me. -- Taylor Dane
I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible -- Tadao Ando
Unlimited goodwill. Suspension of the compulsive anxiety complex. The beautiful "character" unfolds. All of those present become comically iridescent. At the same time one is pervaded by their aura." -- Walter Benjamin

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