Repeat Myself Quotes

#1. I was trying to find ways of not being pigeon-holed like that. I didn't want to be tied down by my accent. I wanted to play Americans. I don't want to ever be doing the same thing twice, and I just didn't want to repeat myself.

Carey Mulligan

#2. What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.

Josef Koudelka

#3. Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

Robyn Hitchcock

#4. If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that
I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed.
To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them

Jack Welch

#5. My mum used to tell me to never boil my cabbages twice, and I think it's artistically valid. While I do find myself on similar themes in my books, I try not to repeat myself, and that's something which is all too easy to do in series books.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#6. I never make a distinction between doing a film in Hollywood or doing a film independently. It's just the story. It's always the story for me. The constants are that it should challenge me and I shouldn't repeat myself. And the story should always be a story worth telling.

Cillian Murphy

#7. Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.

Maggie Cheung

#8. I never want to repeat myself. I can't imagine anything else as upsetting as realizing I'm redoing something I did before. For some reason, when it comes to film, I'm very good at not repeating myself. Even though in the rest of my life, I'm constantly repeating my mistakes.

Doug Liman

#9. I'm nothing if not redundant! I also repeat myself.

Richard Fish

#10. I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

Billy Corgan

#11. I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

Tori Amos

#12. I'm not trying to repeat myself or cater myself to one specific group of people.

Jenny Lewis

#13. I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.

Agnes Varda

#14. I want to repeat myself, Mrs. Boisgointier. These are not my children but I thank you as if they were. I will pray for your safety and your ability to assure theirs. Whatever happens, the world will remember you.

Cecile Kaufer

#15. Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

#16. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.

Harry Truman

#17. No matter how many scores I've written, the next project will hopefully be completely different. As hard as it is, I'm always trying to stay fresh, not repeat myself, and come up with original musical ideas and ways of scoring.

John Keltonic

#18. I'm always looking for a chance to do something different. I don't necessarily want to repeat myself, at any time, and I don't want to just do the same guy, over and over and over again. I want to be able to do different things and to evolve and constantly try to find those roles.

Colin Hanks

#19. I never really want to repeat myself, obviously, but even if I do, it's because it is a choice.

Michael Angarano

#20. After a decade I became fed up with the strobe because I had done almost everything once and I didn't want to repeat myself.

Gjon Mili

#21. I don't want to repeat myself.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#22. Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy.

Laura Schlessinger

#23. You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

Rachel McAdams

#24. Cause I won't repeat myself, the way I dress and look.

Kelly Lynch

#25. I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so I'll either repeat myself or say something completely different and baffle everybody.

Brad Warner

#26. I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

Patrick Warburton

#27. My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.

Alanis Morissette

#28. You're at my table," Cormac whispers in my ear.
"My dream come true," I reply.
"I'm sorry?" he says in a voice that dares me to repeat myself.
"I said, lead the way.

Gennifer Albin

#29. Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

Brian Eno

#30. I just want to make different movies. I want them to be things that I care about and not to repeat myself.

Azazel Jacobs

#31. There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

Joe Biden

#32. My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

Cillian Murphy

#33. When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.

Otto Preminger

#34. The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

Margaret Bourke-White

#35. You're not going to answer me? Or do I need to repeat myself for a third time? It's okay. I like to hear myself talk.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#36. I don't want to repeat myself. I don't want to shoot 10 installments of 'Infernal Affairs.'

Andrew Lau

#37. Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

#38. I try not to repeat myself in fills in all the Rush songs unless it is something simple or something I feel is my own characteristic thing.

Neil Peart

#39. It's funny, I get a little quieter with time. I don't want to chase my tail and one day repeat myself and repeat myself and one day have kids going to college and not have memories that I should, because I was too busy doing my thing.

Dave Matthews

#40. Her eyes widened slightly at the words and she played the last moments of their conservation over in her head. We are in love. He met her gaze, not letting her look away as he spoke. You appear to have missed my meaning. Allow me to repeat myself more plainly. I love you, Alex.

Sarah MacLean

#41. I don't repeat myself and I don't look back because everything is hard work and the only way forward is to continue to be creative.

Timbaland

#42. I try to do different things. My main goal is to choose roles where I won't repeat myself or where I will not be doing the same role over and over. I try to do a villain, the best friend to the lead, and then a lead. I try to vary it up because if I don't, I will get bored.

Ana Layevska

#43. I am learning. I'm a slow learner. I repeat myself three times, relationship wise.

Sheryl Crow

#44. I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

#45. I try not to repeat myself too often, but it's a gamble. 'Fred Claus' had three Oscar winners in it. No business - it was a bad movie.

Elizabeth Banks

#46. I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

Martha Plimpton

#47. One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.

Stephen Moyer

#48. I don't like to repeat myself as an actor.

Joe Lando

#49. I hate having to repeat myself, but sometimes there is really nothing else to say

Dmitry Dyatlov

#50. I'm a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because I've invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me and unkind to other people to repeat myself.

Federico Fellini

#51. You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.

Pablo Picasso

#52. If I do do a sequel, I'm going to have to know for sure that the script is better than the original. So I'm going to be very careful about that because I'm not eager to repeat myself.

Nicolas Cage

#53. I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

Heath Ledger

#54. Silently repeat to yourself: I forgive myself for any ways in which I knowingly or unknowingly caused hurt or harm to any living being or creature. I forgive all who have ever hurt or harmed me. Everything between us is now cleared up.

Michael Beckwith

#55. Two of my favorite phrases to repeat to myself daily are 'Life is perfect' and 'I am grateful'. The more I do, the better I feel. Try it for yourself!

Hal Elrod

#56. This realization allowed me to calm myself enough to heed the whispered advice of Master Yoda now on repeat in my head: Let go of your anger.

Ernest Cline

#57. Do not antagonize the cops, I told myself. Repeat if necessary: Do not antagonize the cops.

Gillian Flynn

#58. I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so there's always pressure. What else can you come up with?

Michael Patrick King

#59. I don't think of myself as fitting into a category. But I had to be careful in all of my books not to repeat things, because I have these ideas, and though the subjects were disparate, the same idea would come up through different portals.

Melissa Holbrook Pierson

#60. Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

Bernard Baruch

#61. I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

Richard Ernst

#62. Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.' I repeat, 'By anyone.'

Pope John Paul II

#63. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

Dorothy Parker

#64. Whenever I get down about life going by too quickly, what helps me is a little mantra that I repeat to myself: at least I'm not a fruit fly.

Ray Romano

#65. Today, my life is awesome.
I don't want to think about tomorrow.
Or the day after that.
So I repeat to myself: Today, my life is awesome.

Kim Holden

#66. There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

Goldie Hawn

#67. I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.

Margaret Atwood

#68. What ultimately got me through was my single-minded determination, voiced aloud to myself and recorded in my diary, to discover the causes of my blindness and never to repeat them. Fearlessly pursuing insight was my badge of honor, my route back to self-respect.

Jeanne Safer

#69. I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.

C.S. Lewis

#70. I see you, and I suddenly forget why I was keeping score. That's why I stayed away, I guess. It was a last-ditch effort to protect myself. Because you totally, utterly undo me.

Andrea Lochen

#71. when I stare at myself for a really long time, I stop looking human. The way that a word starts to seem unreal as you repeat it, my face unravels.

Ainslie Hogarth

#72. I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns.

Howard Norman

#73. How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my ideas, but somewhat else, a thinking, active principle that perceives, knows, wills, and operates about ideas?

George Berkeley

#74. Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common.

David Sedaris

#75. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or, Don't be.

Margaret Atwood

#76. I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough ... yet." Which meant it was up to me.

Sally Field

#77. I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.

Benjamin Clementine