Quotes About Performance

I have to say that my background in comedy, of performing live, has been such a great foundation for what we do now on camera. I really value having that kind of experience. Because when you're doing comedy shows you're writing your own material and trying it out on people and you know people find funny and don't.

I go to a lot of comedy shows.

Broadcasting was something, I don't want to say it came easy, but it's something I'm comfortable doing.

I would not have been comfortable in front of the camera.

I can't learn lines comfortably unless I have it done out loud with someone else.

I am comfortably ensconced in my position as an actor.

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

I never became a road comic.

A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.

I'm excited to play any character that is based in reality. And I'd be even more excited if I can add a comic element to my role.

As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.

Nobody knows the life of the working comic.

Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets.

There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.

Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a comic. I'm just better known for comedy.

I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.

No actor can be a complete artist without trying his/her hand at comic roles.

It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.

Carolines is the best. It has great sound, you can hear from the front all the way to the back with the same quality. If you want to see the top comics, go to Carolines.

Comics don't like to see other comics do well.

The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.

Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.

It's funny: There's a lot of comics on 'Breaking Bad.'