Quotes About Performance

I like to spend as much time on the stage as possible. I don't do a regular TV series because I don't want to be overexposed.

I want a TV series, I'm gonna do some acting jobs, I'm gonna do some Broadway jobs, everything!

I get very, very bored by TV series or TV movies. But when you see great acrobats on TV, my eyes stick to the screen. I can watch them forever.

I had been on the TV show 'Eight is Enough' for four years. Working on a show like that is like working in a factory.

I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet.

Anything I write that I consider stage-quality work, I won't give my TV show. I put it in my live show.

The thing is, with doing our TV show 'Strictly,' and 'Stand Up For Cancer' and any shows I do for TV, it's always so positive.

I never thought I would do a TV show, I never thought I could do it, so I was not expecting a really good performance. It was more about building confidence, and good or bad, I was encouraging other people and pushing myself.

Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's almost the same thing for me. If I'm doing action, or comedy, or something more heartfelt, it's a different approach, but it's all acting for me.

I could see myself being on a TV show, but I think touring is something I'll always do.

People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show.

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

There are times where we are shooting a TV show, and it goes very fast. But everybody has this freedom to still be artists.

When you have a TV show, and you're selling out 10,000 seats or whatever the hell it is, it's not that it becomes easy. It's just that's what your life is like.

I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it. With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.

The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult.

I love television; I specifically love having a dumb character on a TV show.

Nobody can understand the pressures of doing an hour-long TV show unless you've done one. Even when you're not on call, you still are working, learning lines, doing appearances, just tense.

Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.

One of the things you have to get used to, working on a TV show, is filming out of sync.

I worked with Marlon Wayans on the show 'They Wayans Brothers,' and we hit it off. One thing about Marlon, when he casts a movie or a TV show, he expects you to bring it. You've got to be ready to improv, because Marlon will say anything, and you've got to be ready to come back.