Quotes About Performance

What's interesting was with all the shows I did on Broadway, I was either the dance captain or the assistant choreographer - I sort of worked my way up to that kind of thing - and I always was interested in more than just the dancers and the numbers. I would always sneak into the room and watch the scene work.

You're not necessarily going to sneak out many cheap ones, but the ones that are supposed to be homers are homers when you're playing at home.

If there were something that I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers.

The LeBron 11, for $200, has hyperposite construction - a combination of Foamposite material and performance synthetics - and a new layer of Lunarlon cushioning; and anyway, Nike generates about $300 million off the sneakers.

You have to keep performing and keep showing people that you are capable of playing at the higher league. Once you get that sniff, you never look back.

Before 'SNL,' I would do stand-up, opening for Jeff Tweedy. It was worse than bombing in that people were dead silent.

I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.

It's nice when I get offered small parts. But I really think that 'SNL' is what my skill set is best designed for.

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.

If I watch an episode of SNL, and there's one thing that I liked, then that's a good episode.

I am always so happy to be at 'SNL.' I still feel like a kid when I'm there, like I can't believe I'm watching them make the show.

Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.

I'm really impressed every time Kanye comes to perform at 'SNL' because he finds a new way to make that space work for him.

The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

I still have a desire to do some sketch comedy. My dream is to be on 'SNL,' to host 'SNL.'

Anyone who knows music knows that Neil is about as real as it can get, and this along with seeing him perform 'Harvest Moon' on 'SNL' was my first experience knowing what real music really felt like.

I really just love dumb humor. I watch a lot of SNL.

I wanted to do a Chris Farley movie where he's in rehab for half of the film, and for the other half of the movie, he's doing his 'SNL' stuff and his movies.

Something really intense happened to me during the 'SNL' performance. It felt like the person I was made to be faced the person I'm becoming. It was the first time I felt like I was able to make any sense of ownership of my work.

I would love to do 'SNL.'

It's not to say that, like, my sensibility is being sort of policed in any way. It's just I am trained at SNL' to think about the general audience. That's a unique aspect of SNL' - that everyone has an opinion on it from every generation.

Maybe it's a bit snobby, but it's as if you're a proper actor if you do stage.

There are times when one certain snow condition is great for one particular brand of skis.