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.
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.
I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.