Quotes About Performance

There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.

It's always nice when you get a chance to actually work with the other actor. It just brings the scene to life, in a way that's not as easy to replicate on your own.

With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but youve got a lot of downtime as well.

I would love to work with my sister in a movie one day - like play sisters or something like that, because we've never been on-screen at the same time together.

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes.

It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I would like to compare football and cinema. I think it's very similar. It's two games... different games. You have to work very hard and find the confidence to enjoy it on the pitch or in the film.

The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.

It's important for me to work with a strong director because I know I can go to some really deep places, I just need direction on how to get there.

It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.

A little oil makes machinery work easy.

Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight.

I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

May was so great to work with, he even took me over to Japan for some dates. It blew me away when he let me play his guitar on stage with him.

The work I enjoy is when the camera rolls, and I like the work in the moment.

I think an actor can actually gather moments, memories and emotions for his next character. So, it's a constant work.

Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.