Quotes About Performance

My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story.

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

You really have no idea whether or not what you're writing is funny. In stand-up and sketch comedy, you know right away and you can make your changes accordingly.

Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy.

I have always been doing sketch comedy since I was a kid because one of my mom's boyfriends was an improv comedy guy so were doing skits all the time growing up.

We're an improv group and a sketch comedy group called the Tenderloins, that's our alter ego.

There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

I took classes and performed and did improv and sketch and wrote sketches and did lights and sound for other people's shows just so I could be around the theater. That was about seven nights a week for seven years.

My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.

On 'Saturday Night Live,' I never really wrote. You know, I would just - I would let the writers cast me into the show. So my strength - and I put all my energies into performance. I just couldn't deal with the rejection, you know, getting your sketches cut, and it was hard for me.

It's way more fun to tell jokes for an hour than it is to sit in a room and bash your head against the wall trying to think of sketches.

I did sketches and had the best time of my life because people were laughing. I was not self-conscious, because they laughed when I wanted them to.

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.

When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.

There is a shirt company that is making sensors that go into your clothing. They will watch how you sit, run or ski and give data on that information.

Most people just see ski racing during the Olympics.