Quotes About Performance

I felt like 'Life' was a great show. It was really well-written.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

Recording is a lengthy process, but onstage it's completely different; tape is not running - life is running, and cannot be rewound.

There's something very cool as an actor when you have an opportunity to play somebody who's real, whether they're still alive or not, but who has lived a life.

My tendency to internalize emotion is probably why I'm an actor. I'm comfortable performing angrily but have such difficulty expressing anger in my life.

I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

I treat every time I walk on the stage like it's the performance of my life.

Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

Sports are my life. It is my life but it's also how I earn a living.

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.' That's as fun as it gets.

I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

That's the thing that most people don't realize. In real life, comedians aren't funny. They save it. They save it up.

Whatever you paid to see Michael Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.

My life feels so surreal. That's why I've made a shtick of being me.

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.