A Quote by Gloria Swanson

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

Gloria Swanson

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Gloria Swanson
American - Actress
March 17, 1899 - April 4, 1983

I don't want to be totally repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life. I don't want to do that at all.

Alex Pareene

I've said multiple times, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again that I want to play for one team my whole career.

Jalen Ramsey

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

So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.

Gloria Swanson

I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life

Paul Gascoigne

I don't wanna keep playing the same song over and over again. It's just thinking about "what's going to be the coolest thing to play on this particular show?" The easiest thing to do is to play the single over and over again.

John Britt Daniel

I don't want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again.

Alexa Vega

I don't think you can ask anybody in any walk of life to do anything at a championship level without doing it over and over and over and over and over again in preparation.

Tom Herman

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

Hugh Laurie

As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.

Michelle Forbes

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

E. L. Konigsburg

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

Jerome K. Jerome

I'm not someone like Norma Desmond who's harking back to her younger days.

Winona Ryder

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.

Ana Gasteyer

Most of the parts are really gone over and over and over again with Tool. It's a very composed situation. We spend weeks if not months working on all those songs. There's not much room for improvisation.