Quotes About Performance

I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.

Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don't work.

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'

I don't normally watch films I'm in because I'm squeamish about that and it takes me quite a long time to recover and I have to go to work. I'm not being coy or cute, but it's just true.

Coaches and ownership are just like the fans on the street. They can always do it better, and they would always have done it differently when it doesn't work out.

Would I like to play the lead? You bet. Absolutely. But I get to have fun and I don't have to shave when I go to work.

It's dangerous to get calm. You need some nerves to work from, it's good energy. It's not good to have no nerves. You'd fall asleep on stage.

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

Once we start shooting, it's in there. You're trying to get into a place where you rise to the work, rather than make it manageable or make it work for you.

Pierre [from Dude, Where's My Car?] could be the best thing I've ever done. When you distill it down to a minute and a half of work, that may be my finest effort.

do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage

I just want to get into the action. And voice-over work is all action.

On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.

Everybody understands that acting is a really difficult job. It's hard work. You've got to get dressed up, you've got to hang around with beautiful women. It's difficult. It's a problem.

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

T.V.s weird because its both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

If you throw 200 innings or more, you have to be in shape. If you work on your diet and strength, it will help you be in perfect shape for the playoffs.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

Actors and burglars work better at night.

It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.

I'm a fan of James Frain's work, especially in 'True Blood.' He was so awesome in that show.