Quotes About Performance

The wrist is needed in tennis.

I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum.

I attempt to create a form of seriocomic entertainment to either delight, enlighten, or disgust, whichever you'd like. In terms of making motion pictures, I write and direct and act. I guess you'd say I'm a filmmaker.

Rapping was kind of hard. It's so many words. When you sing you can kind of stretch the words out. I didn't have to write as much as everybody else.

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it's therapeutic for me.

Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.

I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists. I feel that musicians do it their own way, write their own songs and put on a great live shows.

Usually when I write a movie, I'm lucky if I get one good actress.

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

When you are preparing for a role, you have a script to comb through and the writer's help in telling you about the character, and then you can fill in the gaps. When you are doing a cabaret show, it's very personal. You have the opportunity to share parts of yourself with an audience and figure out how you want to connect.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

I think, as a writer, you see the big picture, and as an actor, you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details.

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.

I think that when I'm an actor, I get hired, and you say jump three inches, I'll jump three inches. I just kind of trust what the writer's vision is.

I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

An enormous amount of a writer's life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it.

My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.

I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.