Quotes About Performance

Every day I do one or two podcasts that 92 percent of people never will hear. I'm constantly producing, constantly making jokes for Twitter. There's a lot of pressure there. On the flip side, I think having to produce like that makes you a better comedian.

Especially with Facebook and Instagram and Twitter, I can't tell necessarily the nitty gritty of what you're really up to. I'm just seeing the performance of all the work you're doing and the look you're giving; it's very hard to get to the center. It's very hard to see what's what.

I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

I think my best acting is always when I have one or two people to get really intimate and friendly with off set and bring that relationship on set.

Playing two people is definitely difficult, but it's made possible by everyone around me, and it's a big team effort.

People from the beginning of time have always loved to watch two people in competition with each other. You go back to the gladiatorial shows, there's just something about it.

I honestly think what skyrocketed me into professionalism was learning how to play two people and still live through the day.

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.

I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.

Look, you know, you can't please everybody. I'm a stand-up comic. I know that. It doesn't matter how funny you are and how well you do, there's two people that are going to walk out of there hating you.

I still enjoy performing, whether it's in front of two people or 2,000 people, but it's not fun once you leave the big show.

You have to have chemistry - it's acting. I need to make people believe the rumba is about two people in love, and the tango is about passion.

Give me a few hours, and I can teach anyone how to get in and out on a Hobie. To get to the top level of competition, however, takes years. On a 16- or 18-footer, the total weight between the two people should range from 275-295, and you've gotta be a reasonably coordinated person to be any good at it.

I run the material, always with two people, sometimes three. We all see things so differently, so to get a couple of people's perspectives on what I'm doing and the material itself is insanely helpful for honing in on what to take into the audition room.

For someone like me, who as a kid could not have two people in front of me without wanting to hide, to end up on stage with a lot of people in front of me, feeling good, it has to be a strange and special place.

Brock Lesnar and I are as different as any two people can be. What drew us together was the love of the actual performance aspect of what we do.

I've played two people simultaneously for 35 years.

To win the major, you have to play two weeks your best tennis and deal with a lot of things around, to put things together so to be really focused.

It's always ideal if the production that you're taking out on tour is the one that you spent two weeks rehearsing with, and you just do the same show thirty nights in a row.

Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people already know their parts. And they move differently. I find all this liberating.