Quotes About Performance

Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.

I love stand-up comics, particularly those who have embraced podcasting.

If you think about how many headlining female comics are out there, you could say 15, maybe 20?

I appreciate the audience for checking us as comics.

When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or four years, they're doing an impersonation of a stand-up. This is what I think a stand-up should sound like.

Typically, in New York, there are so many comics on a single lineup that you can only do eight minutes.

I'd say a lot of black comics were forced to do the black comedy circuit. I'd go into black comedy clubs and see what they're going through, which is different because they're almost made to be in another world.

For players to perform near their best every week is commendable.

The films that I have done are commendable.

Comedians play off of social commentary.

I've been doing breathing routines for years. It is massive. It helped me in commentary as well.

What I don't like too much really is individual comments about the performances of the players after the game.

My first acting job was a Breck commercial.

It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is acting. I don't believe it. I feel whenever you are doing a film, you are acting. So you need to be applauded for that. I won't do art house cinemas. I want to make commercial films. I want my films to make money.

London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone else, what it means to engage the entire audience.

There are some commercial artists that have number one after number one, and you go to their show, and the show's one-note. Yeah, they're all hit songs. But there's no emotion, because they're the same kind of hit songs, because they're what works at radio. That kills live shows for me.

It is all about playing a challenging role, and whether a film is a commercial one or not does not really matter.

'Cabaret' was the most commercial success that I've been involved in.

People who haven't done commercials, don't appreciate how hard it is.

Commercials are art, too; they're 30-second movies starring people like me. If you look down on the medium, you're never going to book. If you don't love it, do not bother. Find another job you like.

I got my SAG card doing commercials.

I loved doing commercials when I did commercials. I made a living. I worked in front of a camera. I could do plays for free.

I never did commercials. Not that I didn't want to, but because I can't. I am just so bad at it.

At home in my room, I'm funny, but if I'm commissioned to be that, I don't feel very funny.